Sober Life Recovery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873441917
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9186306029
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,557
- Expenses
- $225,364
- Assets
- $36,310
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TONYA WOFFORD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GREG MALONEY (Director): $47,892 total reported compensation
- TRAVIS ANDERSON (CFO): $15,000 total reported compensation
- TONYA WOFFORD (CEO): $15,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to provide a safe, stable, and supportive residential environment for multiple recovering adult addicts and their children. Through structured housing programs, the organization offers participants a foundation for sustained sobriety and personal transformation. Residents receive access to recovery support services, parenting resources, case management, and life skills training, all within a trauma-informed and family-centered framework. By addressing the needs of both the recovering adult and their children, the organization promotes long-term recovery, reunification, and the overall well-being of the family unit. These services are delivered in a communal living setting designed to foster accountability, healing, and hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the year, the organization directly served a total of 35 adults in recovery and 6 children across its residential programs. These individuals were provided with safe housing, structured recovery support, and access to essential services designed to promote long-term sobriety and family restoration. Adults received case management, life skills training, and access to peer recovery support, while children were offered a stable environment conducive to emotional healing and development. The organizations holistic approach ensures that both parents and children benefit from a continuum of care, addressing the multifaceted challenges of addiction recovery within the context of family.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $167K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.