Rivers of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411670536
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Monticello, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7632953433
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $895,984
- Expenses
- $886,152
- Assets
- $444,017
- Liabilities
- $165,972
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK ZERWAS (PRESIDENT)
- CYNTHIA FINKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HANNAH-RUTH PATTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISSY SPRINGS (DIR OF FINANCE & OPS): $117,451 total reported compensation
- HANNAH-RUTH PATTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $98,324 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support, advocacy, education, and crisis services to an increasing population of adult victims. To develop, maintain, and expand cooperative relationships with other community entities. To foster victim accessibilty to all services within the community including emergency housing. To provide support, advocacy, and preventative services to youth in local schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of rivers of hope is to ensure immediate and long-term safety for victims of domestic violence through an array of supportive and preventive services for adults and youth living in sherburne and wright counties. Since 1989, rivers of hope (roh) has ensured that adult and youth victims of domestic violence receive a rapid response and ongoing support to ensure long-term safety and independence. The organization serves residents of sherburne and wright counties and is the sole provider of community advocacy and support services for adult and youth victims of domestic violence in these communities.our advocate work with law enforcement and within court systems to provide criminal justice and legal advocacy to ensure safety for victims and their children; offer support groups in both counties including child care services; and, a crisis phone line that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition, our violence intervention and prevention program for youth is available in 42 schools for middle and high school students impacted by domestic and dating violence. Services include one on one meetings with our youth advocate and facilitated support groups. In this fiscal year, services were provided to over 1,363 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $752K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.