Adoption Support Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471040582
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$145,997
Expenses
$143,096
Assets
$27,623
Liabilities
$8,421

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Erin Nasmyth (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Erin Nasmyth (Executive Director)
  • Erik Lindahl (Chair)
  • Molly Mayhoff (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

To help adoptive families through the unique challenges of building their forever family.

What it reported doing in 2025

ASA runs three ongoing support groups - one for adoptive parents of teenagers and young adults one for adult adoptees and one for parents who have adopted from foster care in partnership with another community nonprofit that serves foster parents. Each group meets monthly and serves 1-12 participants monthly. In 2025 we also offered short-term groups including Renew Your Hope to 4 adoptive parents. Our Be You summer camp served 35 adopted children utilizing art as a way of embracing their unique identities as adoptees.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.6%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 39.3%; rating input score 39

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -33.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.6% of revenue deployed · 39.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.