RYSR Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883518772
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Blue Ridge, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042663208
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,527,161
- Expenses
- $1,532,524
- Assets
- $3,342,097
- Liabilities
- $1,351,970
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- E Lee Wyatt (President/CEO (Part Year)/Director)
- Michael Schieffer (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Patrick Stuart (Director/Secretary/COO): $147,500 total reported compensation
- Michael Schieffer (CEO): $43,167 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 humanitarian help to meet basic human needs for food, water, shelter and medical care.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, RYSR expanded its global impact across 21 countries, delivering urgent humanitarian aid and sustainable development solutions. RYSR distributed over 1.45 million meals, provided 1,500 water filters in Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, and Zimbabwe, repaired 1,200 homes in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, and delivered medical care to 88,895 people. Winter relief included 30,100 quilts and 58,675 jackets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Long-term initiatives supported 50 adopted children, empowered 680 farming families, funded 40 new water systems in Pakistan, launched 15 sustainable businesses, and trained 228 teachers. Over 3,345 women and children accessed education, while 1,920 clinics continued serving communities in India and Pakistan-demonstrating RYSR's commitment to saving lives and sustaining lives, globally.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.1%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $108.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 152.4% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 90.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 86.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.1% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and related organizations
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.