Tender Hearts Girls Home

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
412174567
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
York, SC, USA
Phone
8036843131
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Homes
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,785,598
Expenses
$2,453,669
Assets
$3,136,749
Liabilities
$1,296,521

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ainslee Moss (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ainslee Moss (President): $123,807 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Tender Hearts Ministries had the following assistances for 2025: *Total Charity Tracker assistances: 8488 *Total Client Count: 3,336 (Female 1,804/Male 1,532) *9 Month House of Hope Homeless Shelter: 19 total clients * 24 Month Transitional Housing Program: 16 clients *Provided transportation vehicles to 14 individuals (cars, mopeds, or bicycles) *Fire Victims: 13 individuals. *Food pantry: 360 families with 899 assistances. *Homebound Senior Citizens Monthly Food Delivery: 81 homes delivered to 100 clients. *Baby needs:321 babies received diapers, wipes, formula, and/or baby food *Community Baby Shower: 55 Mothers in attendance receiving free diapers, wipes, diaper bags and access to other local infant care resources *Canned Food given out: 28,884.40 pounds. *Young Ladies received dresses, shoes, purses, etc for their High School Proms: 142 *Christmas Outreach: Children were provided with Christmas toys, clothes and stocking stuffers: total 1.435 (York County 1,162/Chester County 273)

What it reported doing in 2025

Thrift Store: Job Opportunities: ***EARN & LEARN*** Tender Hearts Ministries aims to help those individuals who need hope and opportunities for a better life by providing them with job training in our warehouse location. These individuals begin employment with us so we can provide coaching and hands-on skill development. They learn in-take, processing, pricing, distribution, quality control, cleaning, use of an electric time clock, punctuality, proper dress attire, communication skills, and much more. Our goal is for them to receive actual experience and to help set them up for success to move on to another employer in York County or Chester County, South Carolina. Each client/employee has their own individualized plan which could take 6 months up to 5 years depending on their learning capabilities. Below are the four types of clients we work with for job training: Those with criminal backgrounds/some coming straight from prison, those with addictions and have completed rehabilitation, those who are homeless (and have not been in the workforce for a long time), and those who are special needs with learning disabilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 85% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.