Tennessee Cares for Kids Incorporated

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274783450
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2012
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Columbia, TN, USA
Phone
9319813813
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Foster Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,607
Expenses
$21,896
Assets
$63,252

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Vision - Tennessee Cares for Kids envisions a community where all children are valued, grow up in safe, loving and nurturing families and are supported and empowered to reach their full, God-given potential. Mission - We are dedicated to supporting children and families in crisis, foster care, adoption and child abuse prevention in the communities we serve.

What it reported doing in 2012

We provided clothing, school supplies, and more to foster children and other children and families in crisis in the communities we serve. We served approx. 300 children and/or families with this program. We also provided housing, utilities, transportation and more to homeless youth (and their children) who were previously in the child welfare system and other families in danger of losing their children to the child welfare system. We also provided supervised visitation services to families referred from the family and juvenile court systems. We also implemented programs designed to decrease the prevalence of child sexual abuse in our community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.5%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 74.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.89; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.