Shoes for Souls C/o Teresa Taylor
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834058233
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kingston, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8657484806
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,311
- Expenses
- $12,124
- Assets
- $55,633
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ABBEY TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ABBEY TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- ELI TAYLOR (VICE PRESIDE)
- TERESA TAYLOR (SECRETARY/TR)
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
To provide shoes, supplies, clothing, and other necessities to homeless and needy school children. Our mission is to make each child feel equal and included, no matter their upbringing.
What it reported doing in 2025
508 pair of shoes for operation reach at walmart.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.1%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 72.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.59; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.1% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.