The Recovery High School at Fairbanks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203094377
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3175729440
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,589,408
- Expenses
- $1,619,082
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT): $279,946 total reported compensation
- JANINE SHOPP (TREASURER): $168,903 total reported compensation
- RACHELLE GARDNER (COO): $124,852 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a safe, sober, and challenging school experience for students who share a commitment to educational achievement and personal growth.
What it reported doing in 2019
Hope academy provides a recovery and wellness curriculum, allowing students the opportunity for personal growth in their recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction. Each student is required to take a recovery-focused basic skills course. Students learn basic skills, including balancing a check book, how to interview and write a resume and time management, to prepare them for life after high school. Most importantly, students learn how to live their life clean and sober. Hope academy has a recovery coach and clinical specialist providing the students support and tools for recovery. Hope academy uses the 90-in-90 workbook, a tool for recovery wellness, as a way for students to journal on their recovery process. Students are required to attend recovery management and 12-step meetings outside of school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $989K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $280K · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.