Room at the Inn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562152520
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3369963788
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services for Adolescent Parents
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,185,117
- Expenses
- $2,627,942
- Assets
- $7,572,816
- Liabilities
- $409,772
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- O ALBERT HODGES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- O ALBERT HODGES (PRESIDENT): $148,444 total reported compensation
- EDITH CLIFFORD (VP/COO): $120,541 total reported compensation
- RYAN CATALDO (VP/CPO): $64,737 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Responding to the call of christ to nurture life, room at the inn, inc. Operates housing and programs for homeless, single, pregnant women and single mothers with children offering them opportunities to have new lives of healthy, hope-filled independence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nc maternity home: total moms served 23; total children served 7; total nights of shelter provided to pregnant clients: 2,099; total nights of shelter provided to children: 534; total meals provided to clients: 7,899; transportation trips provided for health, self sufficiency and other appointments: 1,144; health education, parenting, and life skills classes offered: abstinence, adoption planning, breastfeeding, car seat safety, conflict management, cooking, education planning, emergency medical care, nutrition, housing, infant development, job seeking skills, labor & delivery, money management, parenting, post-partum depression, safety & health, self-esteem, sids, stress management, and substance abuse, etc.58% of clients received mainstream benefits; 100% of maternity home graduates transitioned to permanent housing; 94% of babies born had birth weights of 5.8 pounds or greater; 100% of babies born had apgar scores of 8 or more.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 63%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 63% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.