The Presbyterian Home for Children

Legal name: Presbyterian Home for Children

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
630307953
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Talladega, AL, United States
Phone
256-362-2114
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,364,508
Expenses
$3,815,839
Assets
$20,626,431
Liabilities
$891,693

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MR DOUG MARSHALL (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MR DOUG MARSHALL (PRESIDENT): $131,445 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 Presbyterian Home for Children provides a faith-based safe haven through programs that nurture, educate, and equip children, caregivers, and young adults transitioning to adulthood. Outreach The Presbyterian Home for Children ministers to children and youth outside of the Home’s campus through mission outreach partnerships. The Home provides food, school supplies, gifts and fun events for children in the underserved Black Belt region of Alabama through a partnership with the nonprofit M.I.N.D. Mentoring in New Dimensions. M.I.N.D. works with children and youth in Wilcox and Marengo counties by providing life-affirming and mentoring opportunities which the Home helps support through a variety of ways.

What it reported doing in 2024

Secure dwellings is an on-campus ministry for homeless boys and girls and their female caregivers. The organization provides transitional housing, transportation, and access to social services. The purpose is to provide a safe haven for children and youth who have experienced homelessness so they may rest, grow, play, and learn while their parent or guardian works on developing the educational, vocational, and social skills necessary to become self-sufficient. Education is provided by ascension leadership academy, an off-campus fully cognia-accredited school that is part of the organization and meets both the needs of the residents and students from the community.expenses: $367,230, including grants of $0. Revenue: $15,089.family bridges offers assistance to families in need of intensive in-home services to preserve and reunify families experiencing crises. Specialists use a proven approach to either prevent families from breaking apart (family preservation) or to bring them back together (family reunification).expenses: $198,243, including grants of $0. Revenue: $160,874.temporary supportive housing is offered to families who have graduated from secure dwellings. The program provides a way for families to build upon the skills gained while participating in secure dwellings. Through temporary supportive housing, participants receive limited support in successfully transitioning out of the program and into permanent housing, limited financial assistance, and supportive follow-up services after transitioning out of the program.expenses: $39,587, including grants of $0. Revenue $0.union village is a joint program with the Alabama institute for deaf and blind to provide housing for their consumers on the campus of the presbyterian home for children. It is a supportive housing community with special accommodations and accessibility for low-income deaf, blind, deafblind, and multi-disabled adults that empowers them to feel safe and independent and live in an inclusive and affordable environment with their peers. The rental income from union village supports the home's programs that serve and care for at-risk teenage girls, homeless children and female caregivers, young female adults transitioning to adulthood, and families in crisis.expenses: $416,576, including grants of $0. Revenue: $200,637.other programsexpenses: $531,220, including grants of $0. Revenue: $0.

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 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.41; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st 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: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 25 people listed
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 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

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  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.