Cultivate Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811222176
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sharpsburg, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6783619054
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $602,840
- Expenses
- $140,683
- Assets
- $540,646
- Liabilities
- $2,644
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN KILGORE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELISE KILGORE (DIRECTOR): $39,752 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Exist to foster community, growth, creativity, and purpose in emerging adults.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.5%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.5% of revenue deployed · 44.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 10/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.