EnCircle
Legal name: Lutheran Family Services of Virginia Inc Dba Encircle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541222012
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5407747100
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,867,818
- Expenses
- $62,684,612
- Assets
- $22,537,051
- Liabilities
- $9,391,460
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAYMOND RATKE (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RAYMOND RATKE (CEO): $362,609 total reported compensation
- JO ANN CAIN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $239,790 total reported compensation
- MARGARET NIMMO (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $228,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At enCircle, we are guided by our vision that all people in our communities will receive the support they need to live abundant lives. Over time, we recognized that people with developmental disabilities and their families were looking for additional supports that allowed them to be fully engaged in their communities. Supporting this population was a perfect fit for our mission and a natural extension of our educational services for students with special needs. Through the acquisition of a private provider, we were able to enter the field in 2011 with experienced staff and existing clients. We have expanded into every region of Virginia over several years. Today: Ensuring All Are Included 2018: Starting to Assist Immigrant Children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Treatment foster care, adoption, and counseling services: at encircle, we wrap support around children in foster care who have experienced trauma to help them heal and find permanent family connections. We are a licensed child placing agency through the Virginia department of social services and our treatment foster care program is carfaccredited. We recruit and train adults in the richmond and tidewater regions who are eager to share their skills, strengths, courage, and "life firsts" with children in foster care. Many of the children we serve are teens, part of sibling groups, or have behavioral challenges or other special needs. In some cases, our foster families adopt children in their care, and in other cases, children return to birth families or other placements. Frequently, our foster parents provide long-term stability and connection for young people, which greatly increases their chances of becoming successful and contributing adults. Our highly trained staff also offer post-adoption case management for families who have adopted children either from foster care or through private agencies. We understand the unique and ongoing needs of families created through adoption. Finally, we also provide visit coaching to mentor families through visits with their children with the goal of reuniting parents with children in foster care. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, encircle supported 22 children in foster care, and 3 children in care were adopted. We also supported 65 families through postadoption case management and 11 families through visit coaching. Encircle also provides outpatient mental health services, which we call counseling. Encircle's experienced counselors offer a trauma-informed and integrative approach to individual and family counseling. We conduct comprehensive assessments and highly individualized treatment. Our counselors are trained in trauma-focused treatment interventions for children, teens, young adults, adults, and families dealing with emotional and behavioral issues. Our clinicians offer in-person and virtual counseling options. In the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, encircle clinicians served 179 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $55.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $363K · 22 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
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 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.