Williamsburg Christian Retreat Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541285092
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Toano, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7575662256
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,541,873
- Expenses
- $1,405,237
- Assets
- $3,456,245
- Liabilities
- $1,143,714
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM THORNTON (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BOWMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT W BRISCOE (EXEC. DIRECTOR): $69,405 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a place for the holy spirit to work in the lives of kids and adults through camping and retreats. We host church retreats year-round. We program summer camp in june and july, family camp in august, two quilting retreats - one in march, one in november, and a winter retreat in december.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted guest services - accommodated various retreats and meetings provided in peaceful setting that encourages a relaxed pace, enjoyment of the outdoors, and worship of god. Accomodated over 20,000 guest days.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.46; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.