Teen Challenge Southeast
Legal name: Teen Challenge Job Training Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593319814
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Columbus, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7065968731
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,170,501
- Expenses
- $10,994,957
- Assets
- $7,493,536
- Liabilities
- $5,863,853
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- JERYL NANCE (BOARD CHAIRMAN)
- STEPHEN T BUTLER (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- BRICE MADDOCK (CEOPRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teen Challenge now offers faith-based, effective, licensed clinical services for those with addictions and other life-controlling issues. We build that spiritual foundation through biblical teaching, discipleship, mentoring, and creating a community of support. Residents are immersed in God’s Word and surrounded by others who are also growing in their faith. Our experienced staff—many of whom have walked similar paths—provide compassionate guidance, while more advanced residents serve as natural mentors, offering encouragement and direction to those just beginning their journey. This peer support is powerful, reinforcing commitment and creating bonds that help sustain long-term transformation. Teen Challenge Committing a full year in a residential program can feel like a big sacrifice, especially when it means stepping away fr.
What it reported doing in 2024
Work-related duties at thrift stores in conjuction with faith based residential drug and alcohol dependency program. Dozens of persons participate in the work portion of the program at this location.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.