Embrace Alabama Kids
Legal name: United Methodist Children's Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630302145
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Montgomery, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3343865354
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,068,133
- Expenses
- $9,189,794
- Assets
- $11,734,124
- Liabilities
- $1,236,526
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- K BLAKE HORNE (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- K BLAKE HORNE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $226,365 total reported compensation
- REBECCA MORRIS (SR. VP OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS): $144,043 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN ALBERDA (SR. VP OF OPERATIONS): $140,348 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As followers of Christ, our passion for serving is motivated by compassion and a calling to care for vulnerable children. We strive to be there for children who are in need of someone to care for them when those closest to them arent able to adequately provide that care. While faith serves as the core of our mission, we are driven by a desire to nurture, support and prepare kids for productive, thriving futures.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide complete residential care for dependent, neglected, and/or abused children and youth. Provide scholarships to foster youth through residential higher education program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $226K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.