Atlanta Children's Day Shelter
Legal name: Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581675299
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 404-892-3713
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,216,720
- Expenses
- $2,242,485
- Assets
- $7,451,750
- Liabilities
- $90,878
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAMERON TURNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CAMERON TURNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $153,270 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Atlanta Children's Shelter provides comprehensive services to parents and high-quality early childhood education to children, ensuring that both generations can thrive together.
What it reported doing in 2024
Atlanta children's shelter is a state licensed, nationally accredited by the national association for the education of young children, and a quality rated childcare center. We served a total of 56 homeless children throughout the year of 2024. Our teaching staff and local professional partners provide a quality, safe learning environment for the students, focusing on the developmental needs of the student from infancy to age six. Quarterly brigance assessments and screenings show that 74% or 30 students met or exceeded developmental milestones in all areas of literacy, social emotional, physical, language and cognitive. Operating approximately 245 days on campus ensures parents have a safe place for their children so they can work towards their personal goals of self-sufficiency. More than 48,600 meals were served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: -1.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.32; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 31 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.