Pinelands Group Homes Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
571057733
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Summerville, SC, USA
Phone
8438510079
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$879,528
Expenses
$968,596
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOETTE KIZER (CEO/BOARD MEMBER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOETTE KIZER (CEO/BOARD MEMBER): $30,748 total reported compensation
  • SHAWN NEWSOME (CHAIRMAN/BOARD MEMBER): $26,269 total reported compensation
  • RICHARD KIZER (BOARD MEMBER): $16,940 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

It is the mission, duty and purpose of pinelands group homes, inc. To provide safe, high quality services to adolescents, families and their significant others that will address, educate, coordinate, counsel, and provide mental health services to neglected, abused, and delinquent adolescents. The goal is to return the adolescent to a healthy environment. It is our duty to work with adolescents to address and resolve conflict in their lives related to neglect and/or abuse. If adolescents have been removed from the home, our work focuses on reunification with the family. Adolescents experiencing conflict and demonstrating violence and aggression learn other ways to responsibly deal with the anger and pain of identified trauma.

What it reported doing in 2020

. Celebrated 24 years of providing services to the children of South Carolina. Provided residential clinical services to 127 youth. Maintained a clean safe environment for the clients by performing ongoing inspections and making repairs in a timely manner.. Maintained carf accreditation.. The ceo, clinical program director, and clinical coordinator established small groups to improve and maintain an adequate milieu structure.. Continued using the "power up for positivity" as a way for co-workers, supervisors, and visitors to acknowledge staff and each other for jobs well done.. Administrative staff participated in annual training where instruction on pbis, motivational interviewing, emotional regulation, and communication were given.. Established pineland's version of pbis and implemented its structure in the milieu for staff and clients.. 36 clients and 21 staff participated in an on-campus water day that was fully funded by donations. (due to covid-19 clients off campus outings have been restricted for safety purposes. Water day included, water games, kona truck, cookout, and 2 water slides.). New training added for staff included: mental health first-aid (webinar), gang training by the department of juvenile justice, emotional regulation and motivational interviewing (in house training).. 6 staff renewed their cpr/ first aid certifications. (including 1 hsp, clinical coordinator, and 4 direct care staff) eight (8) clients celebrated the completion of their ged.. Fourteen clients enrolled in ged for 2019-2020 school year. Fifty-seven (57) % completed ged. 6 others were enrolled but discharged before completion.. Spring semester (pre covid-1) seven (7) clients were enrolled in mainstream. Due to the pandemic, clients returned to medical homebound schooling on-campus.. Sixty-eight (68) clients were enrolled in medical homebound.in addition, the program utilizes evidenced based practices, i.e. Positive behavior intervention support, anger management, motivational interviewing, and gang involvement curriculums. Clients also are offered equine, pet, and music therapy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 73
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,935.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 70%; rating input score 70; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $841K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.