Ancoratn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454955577
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Joelton, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158066899
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,933,511
- Expenses
- $2,979,510
- Assets
- $7,010,022
- Liabilities
- $820,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KYLA CONLEE (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KYLA CONLEE (CEO): $136,487 total reported compensation
- SHELBY BROWN (CFO): $70,099 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ancoratn provides specialized case management and comprehensive aftercare for human trafficking survivors and tactically adresses the problems through advocacy, prevention, and training front line professionals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Aftercare and residential program: we provide human trafficking survivors long term, comprehensive, specialized, trauma-informed aftercare through residential and community-based services. Our survivor restoration campus allows for affordable, safe housing solutions and enhances the clinical, evidence-based programs provided. In 2025 we had a record breaking 764 crisis and referral calls with 421 participants entering aftercare services, 3,951 nights of safety provided, 1,262 support group sessions, 758 case management sessions, 552 therapy sessions 39 participants recieving safe housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.35; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 57.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 18 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $654K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.