Amethyst Place Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431887442
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone
8162318782
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,599,109
Expenses
$4,410,446
Assets
$20,292,609
Liabilities
$3,382,383

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Starla Wulf-Brennan (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Starla Wulf-Brennan (Executive Director): $103,641 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Supplemental Statement

What it reported doing in 2024

Family Empowerment - The goal of the Family Empowerment Program is to help families increase their economic and social mobility through educational, vocational, financial, recovery, and wellness support. We offer two-generational support through our Family Achievement Model (FAM), ensuring all Amethyst Place residents are provided individualized, family-centered care to build successful futures. Each family is assigned to a FAM team consisting of two Family Empowerment Coaches, one with peer support expertise and one with youth expertise. Families meet with their FAM teams individually in a frequency individualized to their needs. FAM teams leverage the power of peer support and lived experience through the work of staff who are previous graduates of Amethyst Place and/or women in recovery from substance use, houselessness, and trauma. Staff with lived experience help families address common pitfalls of early recovery: family reunification, physical health/nutrition, financial management, job history, and educational attainment. Family Empowerment Coaches with youth expertise help coordinate with schools, connect youth to extracurricular activities, support positive parenting practices, and provide referrals to other needed services to support childrens well-being, resilience, and growth. In addition to individual and whole-family support, FAM teams coordinate and deliver weekly Empowerment programming for women, children, and the entire family focused on social emotional learning, workforce development, life skills, parenting, financial literacy, home ownership, wellness, recovery, and a host of other topics. The FAM team also leads Amethyst Place Sisterhood, a graduate aftercare program that has successfully kept graduates engaged when they move out of Amethyst Place.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 42.6%; rating input score 43; 14th 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: 4.1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 21 people listed
  • Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.