Teen Challenge International Nashville Headquarters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621087104
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Madison, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6159154197
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,515
- Expenses
- $195,102
- Assets
- $217,997
- Liabilities
- $286,569
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- NORMA CALHOUN (EXECUTIVE DI): $43,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of teen challenge international is to provide counseling services and treatment for individuals with life-controlling problems.
What it reported doing in 2015
Counseling services and treatment for individuals with life-controlling problems.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -51.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.31; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 52.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2011 to 2015
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.