North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC
WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,804 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($423,459). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Wilkes Recovery Revolution Inc does
Mission
Through the wisdom of lived experience, Wilkes Recovery Revolution Inc is creating a community where addition recovery is possible through: restoring hope, reparing lives, and rebuilding community. We are a recovery community orginzation that is consumer operated and driven primarily by the voices of those with lived experiences and our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Phases transitional housing program which is in the heart of north wilkesboro, offers supportive and safe housing for those entering recovery. We offer three facilities, serving male and female residents in seperate programs. This peer driven program supports individuals in building a foundation that will help them transition into independent living, where they will have the support stability on their personal journey of recovery. In 2023 wilkes recovery revolution, inc became medication assisted treatment friendly to ensure that our services were accessible to meet the needs of multiple pathways of recovery. Total individuals housed: 85, males housed: 53, females housed 32.
$701,721 spent$139,007 earned by the program68% of program spendingR3 recovery center serves as a walk-in recovery community center located at 1907 west park drive in north wilkesboro, north carolina is a hub where peers looking to enter or sustain recovery from the effects of substance use or mental health concerns can come and meet with north carolina certified peer support specialists who guide their recovery journey through the lens of lived experience. Our peer support specialists work with peers to offer wrap-around services that address the eight dimensions of wellsness as outlined by the substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa) including housing, transportation, health and physical wellness, continuing education, employment assistance, and more. Through active community navigation, we have established avenues of partnership and referral with other human services agencies in addition to what we are able to offer directly to ensure that we are addressing all social determinates of health that impact the population we serve. Unique participants served: 1,314, recovery coaching sessions: 1,020, referrals: 778
$196,938 spent19% of program spendingWilkes harm reduction collective program stands as a lifeline, offering a comprehensive array of resources aimed at harm reduction and holistic well-being. From overdose reversal kits and syringe access services to vital training for safer substance use, fentanyl test strips, wound care kits, and personal hygiene essentials, we leave no stone unturned in our commitment to empowering individuals on their journey toward health and stability. This programming seamlessly links participants to a wealth of additional resources and programming, ensuring continuity of care and support. Collaborating with alfa, we extend our reach even further, providing free monthly testing for hepatitis-c, syphilis, and hiv, with swift linkage to treatment for those in need. In a bold step forward, we unveiled our mobile recovery health unit, a beacon of support on wheels, equipped to deliver all our services directly to the communities we serve. Operated by a nc certified peer support specialist, this mobile oasis offers not just harm reduction tools, but also invaluable resources for recovery coaching, benefits navigation, employment support, and crisis assistance. Overdose kits distributed: 5,582,…
$59,666 spent6% of program spendingRevolution thrift store, located at 337 wilkesboro avenue in north wilkesboro, nc serves as a therapeutic work and volunteer program that involves and is run by those in recovery, peer support specialists, and recovery allies. The store offers crisis assistance for individuals who are preparing for interviews, reintegrating into society, transitioning into housing, reunifying family's structure, or recovering from trauma. This program also servesto build program revenue to support individuals in recovery. We offer meaningful work that aids to build workforce skills and empower individuals to be productive members of their community and society. The participation of volunteers serves to involve members of the community to become a part of the recovery movement and support those in recovery.
$34,589 spent$65,692 earned by the program3% of program spendingWilkes fresh mobile market is a community collaborative designed to address equitable, healthy food access by selling locally grown produce in underserved areas of wilkes. These areas were identified via research conducted by the healthy wilkes action team, which piloted this successful project through healthy people, healthy carolinas - a duke endowment initiative. The mobile market has found its permanent home with wilkes recovery and is operated by individuals in recovery. Wilkes fresh mobile market is supported by our fresh start farm and through fair market purchases from local farmers. Fresh start farm is a paid agricultural work-study opportunity to bring therapeutic work experience and meaningful certifications to individuals in recovery. Fresh start farm procures fresh fruits and vegetables which are then distributed through our wilkes fresh mobile market.
$38,469 spent$8,165 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,031,383.
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 2023 to 2024, from $896k to $4.2M (+372%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 69% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Devin Lyall
Executive director
Board chair
T Cameron Finley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $750 → $389k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 14 funders by total. 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
WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 58% · 2022 31% · 2023 56% — 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
50% of WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
100% of WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION 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 WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC?
- WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,804 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($423,459). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,454,804 in grants to WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC?
- THE GOLDEN LEAF INC is the largest funder on record, with $423,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 14 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