Sacred Sorrows
Legal name: Sacred Sorrows Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862263238
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Higley, AZ, United States
- Phone
- 4807345416
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,571
- Expenses
- $121,365
- Assets
- $33,962
- Liabilities
- $10,626
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rita Morton (President, Executive Director)
- Nicholas Koenig (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Rita Morton (President, Executive Director)
- Nicholas Koenig (Vice President)
- Karen Wegrzyn (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help grieving mothers and grandmothers, through spiritual retreats and programs, experience the integration of deep grief through the mystery of grace. I hope these will be helpful as they resonate with your own experience, whether you're a grieving mother, grandmother, supportive friend, professional, or, member of the clergy. Faith-based interview podcasts: Want to learn more about this journey? These podcasts will help no matter where you find yourself in relation to grief.
What it reported doing in 2025
In-person weekend retreats in Los Altos and Phoenix continue to offer healing to new grieving mothers and the women who continue to stay as part of the growing network of women connected through Sacred Sorrows.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.