New Jersey · Nonprofit
CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC
CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,168 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,496,638). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $-70423
What Came to Believe Recovery Inc does
Mission
We are a group of men and women who have recovered from a variety of addictions including drugs and alcohol. We are committed to helping others break free from their addictions through retreats, workshops and other events that provide the tools and directions for powerful spiritaul awakening. We continue the legacy of recovery grounded in the spiritual awakening and experience that result from 12 steps, as practiced by the founders of a.a., beginning in the 1930's and continuing to the present. Came to belive recovery provides essential spiritual tools needed to thrive. We strive to create and promote opportunities for life-changing spiritual experiences for imdividuals and families suffering from all forms of addiction. We share our experience, strenght and hope through our own stories of how we "came to believe".
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY (ctbr) entered an agreement with the Western Territory of the Salvation Army to bring our retreats to their Adult Rehabilitation Centers (ARC). Since launching the initiative, we have since developed an entire multiphase curriculum which is now being adopted in all 18 ARCs with the western territory. CTBR is now the entire recovery program being used by the western Territory. The Salvation Army under the agreement is paying a monthly fee for the implementation and support for the program. We have hired a fulltime program coordinator and one parttime person to support the program territory wide. CTBR will continue under an agreement to provide a level of retreats and full support through 2026. Our expectation is to begin implementation into one of the other three territories in 2026. The Salvation Army has indicated that the intent is to adopt CTBR nationwide. This would put our program in 120 Arcs. CTBR provided public access retreats in 2024 and plans to double the offerings in 2025. A third initiative is being piloted within the Nazarene church district of Hawaii. We are retrofitting parts of the program designed for the Salvation Army to fit…
$408,949 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $408,949.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $7k to $34k (+361%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Thomas R Williams
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $330k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC?
- CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,168 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,496,638). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,722,168 in grants to CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,496,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing