Zoe's House Adoption Agency Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473112561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9132334996
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $790,368
- Expenses
- $756,120
- Assets
- $622,457
- Liabilities
- $11,883
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RANDY BOHLENDER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RHONDA KELSEY BOHLENDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RHONDA KELSEY BOHLENDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $145,916 total reported compensation
- REBECCA BECKY JACKMAN (DIRECTOR OF DONOR DEVELOPM): $87,880 total reported compensation
- RANDY BOHLENDER (BOARD PRESIDENT): $6,764 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Zoe's house adoption was founded in the belief that children are a gift from god. As god-given gifts, they are to be nurtured, loved and cared for. Our faith is at the core of our work. We deeply believe that the measure of true religion is how we care for children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Zoe's house provides support, advocacy, education and the full range of adoptive family services. Our social services team works closely with adoptive families from inquiry to home study and portfolio creation and on to match and placement with a birth mom and child. Zoe's house works with families from almost all 50 states providing domestic adoption services. Our team coaches families on open adoption and how to develop a healthy, ongoing relationship with birth parents. We provide our families with referrals for local legal and medical services needed for their adoption plan. Zoe's house serves adoptive families throughout the entire adoption process and for years to come.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
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: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $554K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.