ESTHER Homes
Legal name: E S T H E R Homes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472969434
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- St. Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- (612) 284-2952
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $202,775
- Expenses
- $141,827
- Assets
- $404,648
- Liabilities
- $132,039
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amber Hornsby (Executive Director)
- Elise Holmes (Board President)
- Luke McClain (Board Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Amber Hornsby (Executive Director): $84,480 total reported compensation
- Natalie Kramer (Volunteer Coordinator): $11,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ESTHER Homes provides housing and support for pregnant women facing homelessness or crisis in the Twin Cities, offering a community of hope, practical resources, and encouragement to help mothers achieve stability and long-term goals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transportation Assistance; the organization provides transportation assistance to residents for the following: school doctor appointments work child care county and emergencies. Costs associated with any vehicle purchase gas insurance and maintenance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $70.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.