Grace Counseling Center of Florida Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934290705
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4075191307
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,222,982
Expenses
$1,792,999
Assets
$504,220
Liabilities
$31,400

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lauren Lashbrook (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Lauren Lashbrook (Executive Director): $107,512 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Grace Counseling exists to make professional counseling affordable and accessible, removing barriers so individuals and families can find hope and healing. We provide individual, couples, family and group counseling to ages 4 and older. Our reduced-cost model allows us to provide high-quality counseling at less than half of the national average and provide financial-need based counseling scholarships to those that need additional support, so finances are never a barrier to healing.

What it reported doing in 2025

Grace Counseling is dedicated to helping individuals find healing through affordable, professional counseling services. We offer a range of therapeutic options to address various mental health challenges, including significant specialty expertise in Anxiety?, ADD/ADHD, Depression?, Family transitions, Grief?, Parenting, Neurodivergence?, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Pre-marital counseling?, Postpartum anxiety/depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD, Play therapy?, Racial Identity and Racial Trauma, and more. In 2024 we expanded our counseling operations in size and scope so that more families can find healing. Additionally, we built out a brand new, state of the art space for current and future expansion needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 69% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 165.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.