Embrace Communities

Legal name: Embrace

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
202535599
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Appomattox, VA, USA
Phone
8042184320
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,663
Expenses
$88,818
Assets
$454,981
Liabilities
$188

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wendy McCaig (Executive Director)
  • John Maher (President)
  • Bruce Wilson (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Wendy McCaig (Executive Director)
  • John Maher (President)
  • Katie Gooch (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

Embrace trains, coaches, and connects community builders to strengthen communities from the inside out using Asset-Based Community Development.

What it reported doing in 2025

In the past year, we focused on training other trainers and strengthening our online learning portal. We provided executive coaching to 4 certified trainers and 12 community practitioners. Our ABCD Community Cultivator Network grew from 418 to 498 as we added new learning cohorts to the network. Additionally, we began working on in-person regional networks with a focus initially on four areas in Virginia.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.12; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 60.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.