Uniting Hope 4 Children
Legal name: Uniting Hope 4 Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464232110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Loganville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 678-585-4686
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,472,793
- Expenses
- $2,455,664
- Assets
- $2,939,067
- Liabilities
- $406,066
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAYLA MERRITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KAYLA MERRITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $82,050 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Uniting Hope 4 Children is a faith based non-profit that recruits, trains, and encourages foster families. Our desire is to place abused and neglected children in safe, loving homes. We believe this is best accomplished through partnering with local churches and recruiting Banner Families. Our mission is to recruit, train, encourage, and support foster families by guiding them through the fostering journey. We will continue to walk with them through the process of reuniting the child with their biological family or helping to find that child a forever home through adoption.
What it reported doing in 2024
We seek to provide temporary homes for Georgia's foster children by creating parent partnerships through local churches and organizations. We offer services for potential foster parents including a 2-hour introductional meeting about fostering and a 25-hour impact training class. We also assist foster parents with the paperwork required to foster a child. In addition to informational and training classes, we offer bible study and date night opportunities for fostering parents and meals to go and a clothes closet/baby items for fostering families. Our goal is not only to place children in loving homes, but to support and encourage families who are making a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- 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: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 0.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.