Tender Love Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454766711
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5053491795
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,374,324
- Expenses
- $1,531,714
- Assets
- $2,550,049
- Liabilities
- $700,825
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER PRIEN (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH B JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORAH B JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $145,846 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower homeless, near homeless, and low-income women for a better future through a 12-month training program.help break the cycle of homelessness in the community through life skills training and job placement.to provide transitional housing for the clients in our program during their training period.benefit the community by reuniting families, assisting multi-generational families, and developing micro-businesses in our community to boost local economies.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, tenderlove community center further strengthened services to historically marginalized and underserved communities. Participants received job training and life-skills education, transitional and recovery housing, and access to supportive services. Courses included ged preparation, motivational training, money management, behavioral health, wellness, and yoga.we held our second community health worker (chw) training class. Participants receive training that can lead to employment opportunities within the healthcare industry and community-based services.we served 92 adults throughout the year, not including children. With more people seeking help from tenderlove than ever before, we expanded our space by finishing the basement at our facility to offer more life-skills classes, group therapy sessions, and other supportive services to a greater number of participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.5% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 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
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.