Blanket Fort Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472859137
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Columbiana, AL, USA
Phone
2055323048
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Victims' Services
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$900,887
Expenses
$1,114,500
Assets
$3,831,816
Liabilities
$990,448

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALEXA LIKIS-JAMES (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL O' KELLY (BOARD MEMBER)
  • WANDA LAUDERDALE (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ROBERT MILLS (BOARD MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our proposed restoration home will provide housing, therapy, and access to the gospel for children who need our savior's message of hope. This is our hope for blanket fort hope and the core reason we need to partner with people like you who have a heart for this.

What it reported doing in 2025

Foster care initiative training and prevention, and advocacy: provided human trafficking prevention education to children, law enforcement, court personnel, health care providers, teachers, and the general public involving over 18,000 people. Blanket fort hope still offers foster care human trafficking training thar offers ceus along with social worker prevention education through our foster care initiative. We are working with the Alabama education system to bring awareness to Alabama schools through schoolology and through the Alabama school counselors. Annual training with sav-a-life teaching them how to advocate for their patients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 47.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $767K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.