Open Arms Children's Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861166804
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklet, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9128232016
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $209,371
- Expenses
- $245,455
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $10,200
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLY ROBINSON (DIRECTOR): $61,667 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 open arms children's network, inc is a private, non-profit corporation located in brooklet, Georgia. The corporation's agency program name is ordered steps home for girls and is deemed a child caring institution- base/awo/mwo type program for state purposes. Its purpose is to provide a safe and supportive environment in the form of out-of-home care services for young girls between the ages of six and eighteen. These children are part of the Georgia foster care program and are placed in the group home because they have not received placement or guardianship. Open arms children's network, inc group home program is the primary caregiver for each resident and the program's focus is to provide a stable home life for the girls and to provide tutoring, counseling and personal care while keeping the children involved in school, community and other extracurricular activities. The corporation's program, ordered steps home for girls, is funded primarily by the Georgia department of human reso
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's exempt purpose was achieved in 2009 when the program received child caring institution-base/awo/mwo out-of-home care licensing from the state of Georgia for six residents. The program became operational on april 1, 2009 when it received its first resident and began receiving funding from the Georgia department of human resources division of family and children services. The program was operating at full capacity by the end of the year with each resident of the program receiving proper care in a safe and supportive environment. The group home was the primary caregiver for each resident and provided a stable home life for the girls which included tutoring, counseling and personal care. The program also kept the children involved in school, community, and other extracurricular activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $222K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.