Canopy Children's Solutions

Legal name: Mississippi Children's Home Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
640303085
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Jackson, MS, USA
Phone
800-388-6247
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,767,826
Expenses
$30,466,042
Assets
$40,887,656
Liabilities
$21,134,783

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

36 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JILL PIERCE (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT LEARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN DAMON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN DAMON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $515,738 total reported compensation
  • TERRY HIGHT (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $335,327 total reported compensation
  • ANGIE SUMRALL (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $306,279 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To help children thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

Therapeutic foster care, in-home services and adoption- intensive in-home services program works with seriously, emotionally disturbed youth at home who may otherwise be placed in out-of-home care. Therapeutic foster care program provides a therapeutic program in a caring environment in the context of a nurturing foster family home. Adoption/maternity services seeks to provide a permanent, loving family for every child, including children with special needs and sibling groups. 14 youth were served in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 96
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 10 filed program accomplishments · $21.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $516K · 36 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.