Works of Wonder Therapy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871992823
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Montgomery, AL, USA
Phone
3343564900
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$976,977
Expenses
$1,014,137
Assets
$2,452
Liabilities
$80,356

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLARA LONG (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER)

Highest reported compensation

  • CLARA LONG (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER): $102,529 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

At works of wonder therapy, we are on a mission to improve the lives of families. Parenting children well requires tremendous patience and a variety of skills. Our primary goal is to equip parents with the unique skills they need to address the strengths and weaknesses of every child in their care. Our secondary goal is to empower children to be resilient in the face every challenge.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization provides psychological and developmental testing to evaluate a child's psychological, social, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing through open dialogue and formal testing. The testing helps with understanding specific strengths and weaknesses to provide tailored treatment suggestions to know what skills need to be practiced with consistent positive reinforcement and what skills need to be encouraged as strengths.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 55
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 32.77; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -126.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $836K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.