Miles College
Legal name: Miles College Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630400608
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Fairfield, Alabama, USA
- Phone
- 205.929.1000
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,824,163
- Expenses
- $36,307,345
- Assets
- $103,611,537
- Liabilities
- $22,211,672
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Bobbie Knight (President)
- Ms Diana Knighton (CFO/Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration)
- Dr Jarralynee Agee (Vice President of Strategic Initiatives)
- Dr Anthonia Adadevoh (Vice President of Institutional Research and Effectiveness)
- Mr Leon Parker (Vice President of Student Affairs)
Highest reported compensation
- Dr Bobbie Knight (President): $216,300 total reported compensation
- Ms Diana Knighton (CFO/Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration): $207,763 total reported compensation
- Mr Freddrell Watson (Head Basketball Coach/Athletic Director): $195,164 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Miles College empowers students through faith, scholarship, and service, cultivating leaders who uplift their communities and shape the future.
What it reported doing in 2024
Auxiliary enterprises support the Colleges mission of providing quality educational opportunities. These services include, but are not limited to food service, campus housing, campus post office, vending, campus stores and athletics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 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: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 29th 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: -7.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $27M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $216K · 30 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $948K reported
- Consistency: 19 of 19 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: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.