The Caring Place
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900051191
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, TN, USA
- Phone
- (423) 472-4414
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,976,219
- Expenses
- $1,970,884
- Assets
- $5,147,105
- Liabilities
- $597,989
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CORINEE FREEMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CORINEE FREEMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide access to the basic resources and opportunities our neighbors need. Our mission is to connect our neighbors to opportunities and resources they need. We offer support for the basic resources that individuals and families need through our food, clothing, and Sac Pac programs. . Our mission is to provide access to the basic resources and opportunities our neighbors need Financials. Our mission is to provide access to the basic resources and opportunities our neighbors need Our Vision. Today, The Caring Place has support from 60 churches, representing 12 denominations, 134 active volunteers, 11 staff members, and over 150 organizations and businesses. Currently, God has placed Corinne Freeman as the Executive Director. Corinne began with The Caring Place in 2014. Her love and compassion has continued to grow and commitment to move forward is contagious. It is...
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides food, clothing, social services, and rent/utility assistance to those experiencing poverty and instability. Clients receive assistance in advocacy, linkage to other services in the community, and provided counseling support. The organization assists clients in identifying and obtaining resources to escape generational poverty.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $112.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 33.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.61; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.