Accompanied by Gods Love Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452671192
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
7134830009
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$760,064
Expenses
$717,050
Assets
$27,073
Liabilities
$45,859

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tara Roper (President)
  • Kesha Pickney (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Cheryl Howard (Administrator Founder): $56,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Accompanied by Gods Love (AGL) Inc. offered comprehensive services to children within the foster care and adoption system. We specialize in licensing foster homes to ensure children are placed in safe and supportive environments, while also providing financial reimbursement to foster parents for their care. Additionally, AGL collaborated with child care centers to enhance the quality of care provided to children, offering training and resources aimed at improving child development, trauma-informed care, and overall facility standards.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025 Accompanied by Gods Love AGL Inc carried out its primary program activities by providing financial assistance and reimbursements to foster parents to support the care of children placed in foster homes The organization also incurred expenses related to supporting and maintaining licensed foster homes and enhancing childcare quality through training resources and operational support These activities represent the organizations primary program services and account for the majority of its expenses

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 16
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • 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: 5.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.69; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 107% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $717K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.