Marty's Orchid House
Legal name: Orchid House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822976438
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Louisville, KY, US
- Phone
- (502) 290-2421
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,328,446
- Expenses
- $2,320,151
- Assets
- $326,971
- Liabilities
- $5,983
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN PRIDDY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN PRIDDY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $95,426 total reported compensation
- KAITLIN BLESSITT (DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION): $91,784 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Marty's Orchid House is a licensed day program that provides comprehensive services for young children with autism and overlapping health conditions. We empower our children and families by offering a village of support to prepare them for a brighter future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Marty's orchid house serves preschool-age children with autism and overlapping health issues in jefferson county and surrounding areas. This population was chosen due to disparities that exist in equitable access to a full-time program this is both affordable and meets the complex needs of the children we serve. We do big things for little people every day since opening doors in october, 2018. Marty's orchid house, a licensed prescribed pediatric extended care (ppec) center, provides medical childcare services that are reimbursable under medicaid, which covers 100% of our enrolled children. Services include skilled nursing care and case management, occupational and speech therapy services, individualized special education curriculum, nutritional support, and behavioral interventions. Prior to families' enrollment in our program, barriers for parents in accessing individual services in multiple locations included lack of time off from work and lack of transportation. Currently eighty percent (80%) of our enrolled children live in single-parent households. Separately, services remain fragmented and potentially inaccessible to our target population. We partner with organizations to provide a comprehensive approach in treating a whole child under one roof and have successfully made a profound impact on the health, wellbeing, and development of enrolled children since opening doors. Through hard work, coordination of resources and therapy services, parent education and partnership, and intense daily interventions, our "graduates" become ready to enter a traditional educational program, sometimes ahead of schedule, allowing spots to open for new children in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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
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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th 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: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.