Alive Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431298527
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149384414
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,205,850
- Expenses
- $1,839,472
- Assets
- $988,451
- Liabilities
- $405,889
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matt Ziemianski (Board President)
- Jennifer Gadsky (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer Gadsky (Executive Director): $65,055 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alive's mission is to provide counseling, emergency sanctuary and other critical services to adults and children impacted by domestic abuse, as well as to increase awareness in order to create a supportive community.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the 2024/25 fiscal year, expenses supported domestic violence (DV) survivors through ALIVE programs and accomplishments by: Answering 12,215 phone calls and live chats to the crisis line, offering information, support, safety planning, crisis intervention, access to ALIVE programs, and referrals. Providing 3,242 safe emergency shelter bed nights to 484 DV victims and their 371 children, including food, basic supplies, individual action plans, resource connections, and intensive case management. Facilitating 852 children's therapy hours 80% more than the previous year to 90 children witnessing DV and their 32 non-abusive parents. Empowering 302 adults through 3,693 individual counseling hours and conducting various weekly support groups including three newly created groups addressing specialized client needs. Advocating for 159 clients pursuing 153 orders of protection and other court actions. Presenting and distributing information about DV dynamics, interventions, and prevention to schools, businesses, referral partners, and the greater community, including newly established university, corporate, and organization partnerships. Over 85% of ALIVE clients report acquiring safety strategies for themselves and their children, gaining knowledge of community resources, and learning coping skills due to ALIVE program participation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $691.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.