United States Fellowship Inc C/o Oak Hill House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521765558
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clear Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015824980
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,719,381
- Expenses
- $1,218,594
- Assets
- $902,255
- Liabilities
- $542,890
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER HOERLE (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA MATTERN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- COURTNEY WIGGINS-LLOYD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- COURTNEY WIGGINS-LLOYD (CEO): $108,669 total reported compensation
- DEBORAH DOERING (CFO): $48,818 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United states fellowship, inc. (usf) is a non-profit organization that provides a safe, supportive and structured environment to children and youths based on compassion and accountability. Usf teaches and demonstrates life skills, moral values, confidence and a respect for all people. Every day, usf strives to inspire hope in its children and prepare them for the challenges ahead. Usf is funded primarily by the Maryland department of juvenile services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Oak hill house - founded in 1970, the group home today provides services for up to 14 adolescent males, ranging from 14-18 years of age. This is a short-term group home, often providing care for 9 months of the youth's life. The main objective is for family reunification and integration back to their community, and to become productive members of the larger society. One of the main thrusts of this program is family, because they are important, there are family sessions held twice a month in the family home regardless where that home is in Maryland. In addition, three times a year therapeutic family weekends are held on the grounds of the oak hill house program. Lastly, it is important to stress that the boys go home on a regular basis so that the boys and their families can practice the skills that they are learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.2%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.2% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $866K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.