A Bond of Life Adoptions Louisiana Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205806982
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mandeville, LA, USA
Phone
9856741818
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adoption

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$494,589
Expenses
$365,437
Assets
$223,409
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Victoria Peay (Director): $12,000 total reported compensation
  • Lisa Goldman (Adoption Support Specialist): $4,666 total reported compensation
  • Ellen Ponder Hammons (Social Worker): $2,731 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 carry out our duty to act in the best interest of children and birthmothers that are seeking adoption for their child. To provide counseling and support to birth families or individuals to insure adoption is in the best interests of the childs or children. A Bond of Life Adoptions Louisiana performs and reviews home studies to insure adoptive parents are screened monitored abd prepared to offer the adopted child or children a nurturing loving environment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Birthmother advertising, outreach, counseling and support. This is accomplished through advertising in various media outlets, and birth mother support is used to aid birth mothers during a crisis pregnancy. Counseling and social services prepares birthmoher for pre delivery, delivery, and post delivery to make sure all parties involved in the adoption process are educated and prepared to understand the adoption of child or children into an adoptive home. Most importantly preparing all parties for the childs future. General Human and social services related to the adoption process Liscensed Child Placing agency requirements as to abide by state, local, and federal adoption laws

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $365K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.