Sacred Fire
Legal name: Sacred Fire Community Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461354781
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Carrollton, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7202629181
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $268,336
- Expenses
- $151,208
- Assets
- $139,971
- Liabilities
- $328
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- ALAN KERNER (TRUSTEE)
- SUSAN SKINNER (TRUSTEE)
- CHRIS GRIFFIN (BOARD CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Find deeper meaning in this non-stop world. Experience the Wisdom of Sacred Fire. Transform your life through the gift of Fire. Transform yourself. Transform others. Transform the world—through relationship with Fire, the energetic essence at the center of all spiritual traditions. Sacred Fire transforms lives through the gift of Fire. We train, initiate and support an international community of Firekeepers who host monthly fire gatherings open to all. These fires help people reconnect to themselves, each other, and the natural world in order to **live lives of relationships, awareness, and purpose** —not only for themselves but for humanity. Through the shared experience of the influence of Fire as a source of wisdom and transformation, people can achieve the balance they seek amid the challenges of today’s world.
What it reported doing in 2025
A 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides development programs and activities to cultivate community and individual spiritual enrichment, growth, healing, and learning. During the course of 2025, the sfcc held multiple events and training in our key areas of firekeeping, lifeways and community events. Related to firekeeping, there has been in-person training as well as virtual gatherings and webinars to provide continuing education. We have over 70 active firekeepers around the world in australia, canada, colombia, mexico, england, greece, ireland, scotland, wales and various locations in the u.s. Over 4,500 people attended our various community fires in 2025. In the area of lifeways, we held on-line programs that included registrants from all of the countries that we serve and provided much-needed wisdom at a time of increasing isolation and turmoil. Our community events hosted six fire speaks programs in 2025 that were held in mexico and the u.s. Attended by over 350 people. Registration totals for our firekeeping, lifeways, and community events programs were approximately 4,100.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $170.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.6%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 49/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.