The Respect Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
631151077
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Birmingham, AL, USA
Phone
2053222644
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,096
Expenses
$75,990
Assets
$7,219
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE GREEN (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ANGELA GANT (PRESIDENT)
  • SHARON HILBORN (VICE PRESIDENT AND PROGRAM MANAGE)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE GREEN (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ANGELA GANT (PRESIDENT)
  • SHARON HILBORN (VICE PRESIDENT AND PROGRAM MANAGE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Inspire challenge encourage and motivate youth

What it reported doing in 2025

Back to School Rally motivates students to display respectful behavior. Provided free school supplies, gifts, refreshments, educat/safety info. 4K attended/benefitted

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -42.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.