Chris 180
Legal name: Chris 180 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581430183
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 1-800-896-4106
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,170,525
- Expenses
- $24,068,667
- Assets
- $28,236,976
- Liabilities
- $7,285,795
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHERINE STONE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CATHERINE STONE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $295,689 total reported compensation
- NINA MENA (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $222,483 total reported compensation
- WARREN BINDERMAN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $184,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide high quality trauma-informed care to children, youth, adults and families in Metro Atlanta.
What it reported doing in 2025
Residential and housing services: chris 180 provides a range of housing services to support youth and young adults experiencing homelessness or housing instability. These include the spot drop-in center, emergency, transitional, and permanent housing options throughout the community, and our permanent supporting housing program at summit trail apartments for single and parenting young adults. To promote greater independence, we offer wraparound support such as counseling, life and job skills development, emergency assistance, and connections to stable housing. Foster care and adoption: our foster care program serves children and youth ages 0-21 in the custody of the division of family and children services (dfcs), prioritizing safety, permanency, and well-being while supporting reunification whenever possible. For families interested in adoption, we partner with dfcs to facilitate placements for youth who meet specific criteria, with all adoptions limited to within Georgia. We provide comprehensive trauma-informed support for both children and foster families to help create stable, loving forever homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 64.4%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 55% of revenue deployed · 64.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $15.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $296K · 37 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.