Hiding Place
Legal name: Hiding Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521940412
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Parkville, MD, United States
- Phone
- 410-882-9130
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,171
- Expenses
- $89,262
- Assets
- $379,537
- Liabilities
- $168,498
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BART PIERCE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BART PIERCE (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT T LUCAS (TREASURER)
- MELVIN F MUNK (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Hiding Place is a Christian faith-based residential facility in Towson, Maryland that assists young women facing crisis pregnancy. Our mission is rooted in Christian faith, hope, and love; to provide a positive environment where young women facing homelessness are loved, encouraged, and equipped to move towards personal stability and self-sufficiency. Find Out More 2026 Golf Tournament Fundraiser. Bishop Bart Pierce** was challenged to create a solution for women facing crisis pregnancies after a powerful conversation with a young woman outside an abortion clinic in the mid-1980s. Realizing that simply protesting was not enough, **he felt called to provide practical help and hope.** **In 1986, a home in Baltimore County was secured to support women in crisis** , especially those experiencing unplanned pregnancies, giving them a safe place and a path toward a better future. Since...
What it reported doing in 2024
Since its inception in 1986, the hiding place has assisted over 3,000 women who have given birth to over 2,000 healthy babies. Some of these women obtained high school diplomas and college degrees, received emergency medical attention for themselves and their children, obtained financial support and stability, learned marketable job skills, graduated from the organization's program and returned to family, friends and their community with pride, stability and the ability to sustain themselves and the families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.25; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.