River Peaces Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994014357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bristol, VT, USA
- Phone
- 2024455034
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $200,058
- Expenses
- $315,666
- Assets
- $1,091,727
- Liabilities
- $9,859
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAKEISHA LUCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LAKEISHA LUCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $26,667 total reported compensation
- REFLEKSHUN LUCAS (ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE): $17,333 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
River peaces is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individualsespecially marginalized youth and childrenreconnect the fragmented pieces of their lives and find peace. Our largest program involves hosting transformative healing workshops that integrate indigenous traditions creative arts and emotional support. These workshops are designed to create safe inclusive spaces for participants to explore identity process trauma express themselves artistically and cultivate inner resilience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -57.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.46; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -146.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 50.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.