The Sanctuary and Sacred Spaces

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203651672
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2017
Location
Madras, OR, USA
Phone
5414600177
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$321,801
Expenses
$323,775
Assets
$21,895
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRIS BULLER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRIS BULLER (PRESIDENT): $12,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build a community of christian faith centered around building relationships with the creator god through worshiping, horses, ranch life, and the outdoors.

What it reported doing in 2017

In 2017, sanctuary fine tuned and tweaked some of our initiatives. We continued our learning work experiences using horses and the recreation experience business involving 27 youth. We more closely targeted our academic and experience scholarships to events that had measurable results. We helped six young women go through education for birth options in the north west. Sanctuary hosted its first sanctioned equestrian event and had participants from four states and all age groups. Sanctuary provided emergency crisis intervention for numerous families directly stepping into five active suicide prevention situations, each of which ended in nonexecutions. Finally we created a funding source for our emergency medical account and began a life flight provision program.sanctuary continues to grow to meet the needs of our people fostering their growth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $92.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $316K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.