Mary Lees House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651096929
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8132506650
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Psychiatric Hospitals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,202,493
- Expenses
- $869,345
- Assets
- $13,060,980
- Liabilities
- $56,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER L KUHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER L KUHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $156,542 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mary lee's house is a child protection and advocacy center committed to serving victims of child abuse and neglect through co-location of community agencies.
What it reported doing in 2025
General programs - mary lee's house is a child protection and advocacy center established to meet the needs of victims of child abuse and neglect. We provide a child friendly environment for representatives from many disciplines (including law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, mental health and social services) to work together and ensure that child victims receive the services they need under one roof. At mary lee's house, over 25,000 children have been served and over 35,000 services have been provided since it opened in 2008. In order to help reduce the additional trauma a child victim may experience and to promote collaboration between agencies, mary lee's house provides a facility for the co-location of 5 non-profit organizations. These organizations include the university of south Florida child protection team, the child advocacy center of the 13th judicial circuit court, the corbett trauma center of the crisis center of tampa bay, success 4 kids and families, and healthy start coalition of hillsborough county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.02; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $654K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.