Shepherds Canyon Retreat Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263930639
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wickenburg, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4808388500
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,725,021
- Expenses
- $990,460
- Assets
- $2,849,417
- Liabilities
- $365,623
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN BUELTMANN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN BUELTMANN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $79,750 total reported compensation
- DAVID ANDERSON (DIRECTOR): $78,000 total reported compensation
- TAWN BUELTMANN (EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Offers eight day retreat to provide spiritual and emotional counseling to christian professional church workers and their spouses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.1%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 45
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.1% of revenue deployed · 45.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $450K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.