Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women Chaplaincy Committee Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562119097
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Black Mtn, NC, USA
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Inmate Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,558
Expenses
$112,717
Assets
$123,987

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lauronda Morrow Teeple (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Cari Barcas (Chair)
  • Kitty Kelly (Vice Chair)
  • Amy Moore (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

Provide safe experiences and develop supportive relationships at Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa NC. These will enable the discovery of and belief in hope for renewal reconciliation and restoration.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Ministry of Hope is a community funded chaplaincy program which raises funds to employ on-site chaplains at the WCCW in Swannanoa NC. Our chaplains conduct religious services in the centers chapel and provide pastoral care and spiritual guidance to the inmates. Their guidance and leadership are crucial to helping these women many of whom struggle with addiction abuse and grief issues. The women at WCCW are generally within five years of release or parole. Our chaplains offer them a sense of hope and real-world self-care tools to manage parenting relationships and employment with discernment and spiritual maturity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • 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: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.