Holston Home for Children

Legal name: Holston Home for Children Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
620515531
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Greeneville, TN, United States
Phone
423.638.4171
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Homes
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,634,140
Expenses
$13,771,929
Assets
$39,313,189
Liabilities
$1,090,449

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRADLEY S WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT/CEO/EX OFFICIO/N)
  • SETH TAYLOR (VICE PRESIDENT RESOURCE DE)
  • GAYLE MROCK (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRADLEY S WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT/CEO/EX OFFICIO/N): $341,504 total reported compensation
  • GAYLE MROCK (VICE PRESIDENT): $136,906 total reported compensation
  • SETH TAYLOR (VICE PRESIDENT RESOURCE DE): $122,483 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Holston Home for Children provides hope and healing for a brighter future by sharing the love of Jesus with children and families struggling with life’s challenges. • Provide the highest quality of professional service for our children and their families through highly trained and competent staff. • Treat all people with love, respect, and care. • Keep all information confidential. • God loves children and their families so much that He sent His Son to die so that they could have abundant and eternal life. • Every child should be taught about Jesus. • All things are possible in Christ. families since our ministry’s beginning in 1895, and they continue to be our foundation for today. These are the principles which guide us as we carry out our mission to provide hope and healing for a brighter future by sharing the love of Jesus with children and families struggling.

What it reported doing in 2024

Family service centers: foster care program locates, trains, and provides foster parents for children who need a home due to experiencing trauma. Foster homes are considered extensions of holston home's ministry team to children and families and must align with the home's statement of faith. Foster families come from all types of backgrounds and have many different life experiences. They are able to provide a home where children have a sense of belonging. Foster families undergo extensive training, background checks and home study process before children are placed in their home. Foster parents participate in on-going monthly training. Once they receive a child into their home, they are provided with round the clock support by a child and family specialist and a team of professionals. Around the clock on-call support is also provided for emergencies. Foster parents are provided with respite care, which allows families to take a break from the demands of being a foster parent. Foster parents do receive reimbursement for the cost to appropriately provide and care for the child.through our home to stay program, which includes family preservation and reunification, holston home is able to provide in-home care for families needing guidance as they develop stress-management techniques such as communication skills and appropriate problem solving. Through such education, holston home prepares the family to effectively deal with future stressors without repeating unhealthy behaviors. Our staff conveys that change is possible and empowers families to organize themselves to achieve their goals of maintaining an intact family, or reunifying the family after the child has been removed from the home. Foster to adopt provides comprehensive support and education to foster parents who want to adopt their foster child, in situations where the biological parents' rights have been terminated by the court. The services are provided throughout the process from the initial application to the celebration of a finalized adoption.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $342K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.