Roots Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833218565
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,849
- Expenses
- $151,822
- Assets
- $31,345
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tammy S Howard (Executive Director Board Member Finance)
People named in this filing
- Tammy S Howard (Executive Director Board Member Finance)
- Sarah Holny (Program Director Board Member Finance)
- Kimberly McGee (Board Member Board Structure)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Roots Recovery Housing provides safe supportive recovery housing for women overcoming substance use disorder. With four homes serving 23 women and children we offer housing stability accountability and a healing environment that supports long-term recovery and family reunification.
What it reported doing in 2025
Roots Bridging the Gap Program provides emergency financial assistance to residents for rent medication and other essential expenses. This safety net protects housing stability recognizing that even a small financial crisis can quickly lead to housing insecurity. Grounded in our belief that every woman deserves the opportunity to recover in a safe environment-regardless of socioeconomic status-Roots waived over $7,000 n rental assistance in 2025 to ensure women could remain housed and continue their recovery journey.7
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.