Divine Dignity Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Divine dignity is a nonprofit touching lives by offering dignity and hope through distributing free hygiene products and sharing god's love and hope. Hygiene is often a largely unmet need in low-income communities. Many organizations provide food, shelter, and clothing to those in need, but hygiene is not one of the recognized needs. We distributed more than 10,000 bags of hygiene products with an estimated value of 30 each to low-income people and families throughout the columbus area. This year, we have a total of six hygiene centers, and we added new partners to increase our total to twenty hygiene closets located in secure city community centers, free medical clinics, recovery programs, schools, and churches to distribute essential hygiene products and fliers about divine dignity and our message of sharing god's love. Our products come through in-kind and monetary donations made by our supporters. We have a hygiene collection program that places signs and bins in local area churches, salons, and other businesses to collect donations. This effort is supported by approximately 6,000 hours donated by our 80 volunteers, staff, and directors. A portion of our outreach is to the teen community. The digniteens program provides an opportunity for local teens from churches and service organizations to help provide personal care hygiene items to low-income teens. The dignity 4 kids program works with local schools to make hygiene products available to school-aged children who lack this necessity, thereby removing this potential barrier to attendance. We have also increased our outreach to veterans' programs and homeless shelters.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
• Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $20.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 36.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings