Train Up a Child Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743138686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3145663178
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,304
- Expenses
- $376,751
- Assets
- $1,502,148
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN MORRIS (CEO)
People named in this filing
- LORENA BOLANOS (VP)
- KEVIN MORRIS (CEO)
- BRENDA ROBERTSON (VP)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Train Up A Child Inc. (TUAC) is to help and aid humanity through Education, food, clothing, job training assistance, low- to middle-income housing, and providing shelter and counseling to women affected by domestic violence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation House St. Louis (OHS) - Provides over 40 apartments for low- to middle-income clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.6%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 1
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.99; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.6% of revenue deployed · 1.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.