The Mercy Maternity House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273196267
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Magnolia, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8326523762
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,455,589
- Expenses
- $2,344,445
- Assets
- $1,968,958
- Liabilities
- $565,254
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN WELCH (DIRECTOR/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTEN WELCH (DIRECTOR/CEO): $135,497 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mercy house exists to empower vulnerable families in jesus' name by creating opportunities that provide hope.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mercy house global supports three maternity homes in kenya called the rehema rescue center foundation, a local non-governmental organization. The program provides hope and support to vulnerable young girls who have become pregnant through desperate and often violent circumstances. In 2025, mercy house global rescued six pregnant girls and saw six new babies born. Between 2010 and 2025, 91 girls have been rescued and 91 babies have been born at rehema house. At the three residential homes in kenya, the teen moms receive weekly trauma-informed individual and group counseling. Beyond meeting physical needs, the programs provide for spiritual discipleship and educational training. Tutors provide the girls with a basic education with a goal to reintegrate them back to school or to transition them to a vocational job program once their children reach the age of two. When the girls reach this transition point, mercy house global's sponsorship program provides for their school fees, uniforms, and books, as well as for their children's education. Vocational training ensures that the teen moms do not end up homeless or victims of human trafficking after their time at rehema house. The girls are introduced to a variety of vocational skills including hairdressing, salon skills, technology, music classes, baking, cooking, and sewing.
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 64% for direct work, and 36% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.5%; rating input score 86; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.