New Mexico Boys and Girls Ranches Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850125610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5058813363
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,943,875
- Expenses
- $3,009,842
- Assets
- $14,005,566
- Liabilities
- $1,883,058
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKELA KULL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELE KULL (VP FOR PROGR): $113,592 total reported compensation
- MIKELA KULL (PRESIDENT): $67,202 total reported compensation
- DAWN GOODRUM (CONTROLLER): $65,389 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ranches is a non-profit organization that operates multi-denominational christian homes for children who are not able to live at home. The services offered provide struggling children with a structured environment, consistency and predictability as they learn life skills, including communication, peer relationships, adult relationships, cultural diversity, work skills, social skills, cooking skills, caring for animals, etc. The on-campus services provide counseling for both the individual and the family, educational skills, family living opportunities as well as physical and social activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ranches' community programs provides the following services: families for children provides foster care placements for young children as well as respite placements for teenagers. Families for children also provides parent training classes for the parents of residents in the ranches programs as well as community participants needing assistance with parenting skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.65; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.