The Fathers Heritage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990655587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dover, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2524978783
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,638
- Expenses
- $154,628
- Assets
- $18,877
- Liabilities
- $24,092
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Scott Murphy (Chairman)
- David Cauley (Vice Chair)
- Darlene Spivey (Treasurer)
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 provide Christ-centered programs for spiritual growth, education, outreach, and restoration through camps, media, and missions locally and globally.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Father's Refuge operates a 40-acre discipleship camp at 9210 NC-55, Dover, NC, providing year-round Christ-centered programs including retreats, discipleship training, family camps, and outdoor education. Activities include facility maintenance, utilities, insurance, capital improvements, and program operations supporting individuals and families seeking spiritual growth, restoration, and community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
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: 3.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.28; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 89.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.