Huntingdon College
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630288841
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Montgomery, AL, US
- Phone
- (334) 833-4497
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,825,138
- Expenses
- $39,196,996
- Assets
- $95,159,399
- Liabilities
- $24,113,995
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
59 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR ANTHONY J LEIGH (PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE - EX-OFFICIO)
- MR JAY A DORMAN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT A)
- THE REVERED J CAMERON WEST (FORMER PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE - EX-OFFICIO)
Highest reported compensation
- THE REVERED J CAMERON WEST (FORMER PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE - EX-OFFICIO): $333,142 total reported compensation
- MR JAY A DORMAN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT A): $269,883 total reported compensation
- DR ANTHONY J LEIGH (PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE - EX-OFFICIO): $252,234 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grow in Mind, Heart, Spirit
What it reported doing in 2024
Huntingdon college is co-educational, primarily four-year institution, with a rich liberal arts tradition that is grounded in the judeo-christian heritage of the united methodist church.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th 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: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 45 of 45 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $333K · 59 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.