Carter Compassion Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863104495
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Elizabethton, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4239303777
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,724
- Expenses
- $101,285
- Assets
- $56,783
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brandon Young (President)
- Michael Simerly (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brandon Young (President)
- Michael Simerly (Vice President)
- Karen Jones (Secretary/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
To be a liaison between those in need in our county to the organizations who can assist them with their needs. Assisting with funds for flood victims and assisting with utilities, rent and other miscellaneous needs
What it reported doing in 2025
Lodging, utilities, rent, document replacements, gas, flood relief
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.3%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 19.8%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.3% of revenue deployed · 19.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.