Grove Christian Outreach Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270077733
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Williamsburg, VA, United States
- Phone
- 7578871100
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,973,897
- Expenses
- $2,034,086
- Assets
- $2,010,063
- Liabilities
- $10,647
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDDIE ANTLE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATIE PATRICK (EXECUTIVE DI): $89,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve vulnerable families in the Greater Williamsburg area with God’s grace, providing resources and hope for a healthier future; Grove Christian Outreach Center focuses on practical support such as food, clothing, and financial assistance, delivered through programs including The Gathering Place (Williamsburg’s First Free Grocery Market), the Rob Till Community Garden, and additional community initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food - gcoc distributed over 630,651 pounds of food to 1,061 different families, representing 10,885 visits to the gathering place. Volunteers from local churches helped pick up donated food from 12 area grocery stores and restaurants as well as the Virginia peninsula foodbank. Hygiene and cleaning products were also distributed monthly through our pantry. The summer lunch program provided 5,406 lunches to children. Gcoc took on a new program, the rob till community garden, a fresh food initiative to not only provide fresh hyper local produce in the gathering place, but also as a way to encourage neighbors to grown their own food supplies in the grove community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $103.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 25th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th 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: 94.8% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.