South Highland Outreach Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811623072
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2059330790
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,630
- Expenses
- $67,491
- Assets
- $59,972
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY HARDEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GARY HARDEN (PRESIDENT)
- MARK GARNER (TREASURER)
- ROB STAFFEN (SECRETARY)
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 improve participants quality of life by nurturing mind, body and spirit through a social atmosphere and job readiness training.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the 2025 calendar year, the organization accomplished the following activities: 1. Provided supportive services to an unduplicated 29 individuals with severe mental illness. Individuals served include adults age 55 and over, low-income individuals, individuals who are food insecure, and individuals with an intellectual disability. 2. Served an increased number of program participants who are black and program participants who are women. 3. Provided 50 in-person weekly meetings. 4. Through a partnership with uab, shop served as a preceptor site for 12 uab nursing students or psychology undergraduates to help train them on interpersonal communication with individuals with mental illness. Students gained invaluable experience with hands-on mental health self-management and community-based care. Shops executive director provided feedback to students regarding interpersonal interactions with people with mental illness. 5. Trained and engaged with 23 community volunteers who provided supportive relationships with participants and shared resources as needed. 6. Provided an internship opportunity for a psychology student at samford university with invaluable hands-on training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69
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: 8.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 44; 44th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.