Foster Love Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824458152
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Brunswick, GA, USA
- Phone
- (912) 275-0005
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $391,754
- Expenses
- $386,843
- Assets
- $161,708
- Liabilities
- $107,684
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marci Bourland (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Marci Bourland (Executive Director): $67,250 total reported compensation
- Jill Lively (Chief Financial Officer): $26,132 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Welcome to Foster Love Ministries, a beacon of hope and love in the heart the Golden Isles Region. Our mission is to address the foster care crisis in Glynn and surrounding counties by providing a nurturing environment for children in need. Through the power of faith, community, and collaboration, we're dedicated to forming lasting partnerships to ensure every child experiences the warmth of a loving home. Discover how you can make a difference. Whether you're called to open your home as a foster parent, support through prayer, volunteer your time, or contribute financially, there's a place for you in our mission. Together, we can empower love and transform lives, one child at a time. Join u.
What it reported doing in 2024
Plan of Safe Care provides case management services to pre-natal and post-natal mothers with identified substance disorder issues who have an identified secondary care giver so that baby can receive care as well and the family can remain intact while receiving needed care
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: 1.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $331K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 44 of 45 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.