Better Business Bureau Report for
Home of the Innocents, Inc.

Better Business Bureau Report issued April 2011
Better Business Bureau Report expires April 2013


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Charity Contact Information

Name: Home of the Innocents, Inc.
Address: 1100 East Market St.
  Louisville, KY 40206
Phone: 502-596-1000
Web Address: www.homeoftheinnocents.org
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Better Business Bureau Comments

Year, State Incorporated: 1880, Kentucky
Affiliates: HOTI Realty, LLC, HOTI Realty II, LLC, HOTI Realty Holdings, Inc.
Stated Purpose: The Home of the Innocents provides comprehensive child and family services for abandoned, abused, neglected and medically fragile children and youth, as well as services to children with autism. Programs include emergency and long term residential treatment, individual and family counseling, foster care, and skilled nursing care.

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Evaluation Conclusions

              

Home of the Innocents, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
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Programs

              

The Home’s programs and services include: • A new comprehensive pediatric medical clinic including 12 exam rooms, 3 dental operatories, dental radiology, laboratory, digital radiology, audiology and behavioral health serving as a model for an integrated healthcare model in our community. – • The new Advanced Therapy Center with an indoor heated therapy pool, land-based therapy spaces and a large therapy court / gymnasium. • The new not-for-profit Village Pharmacy, providing prescription medications for all children in the Home’s programs, as well as medically fragile children, children in out-of-home care and special needs children throughout our community. • The Harry & Jeannette Weinberg Academy providing three classrooms staffed by Jefferson County Public Schools for children at the Home of the Innocents. • A 72-bed crisis care treatment program, which provides residential care to abused and neglected children. • A 22-bed residential services program for girls, with specialty services for teenage mothers, to assist young women in becoming self-sufficient young adults and parents. • Home To Home Services including: 1. Independent living program to provide a supervised apartment experience for young people; 2. Aftercare support to parenting and non-parenting adolescents who are locating to community based independent living; 3. Service coordination and in-home therapeutic support services providing case management and child and family daily living skills training for children at risk of psychiatric hospitalization or removal from their families by a state agency, including services in Southern Indiana; 4. Services for families and children afflicted with autism and other developmental disabilities, primarily using emotional, cognitive, and behavioral therapies, including services in Southern Indiana. • Therapeutic foster care designed to train and support foster parents caring for challenging children, including services in Southern Indiana and the Bluegrass region in Kentucky. • A 76-bed pediatric convalescent center, which provides skilled nursing care for medically fragile children with chronic health problems requiring either short or long term care, as well as respite care for families who are caring for their medically fragile children at home.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, Home of the Innocents, Inc.'s program expenses were:

  
Pediatric Convalescent Center 10,408,107
Crisis Care Services 4,788,009
Home to Home Services 3,363,484
Outpatient Services 1,963,210
Therapeutic Loving Foster Care 1,280,618
Residential Services 808,012
Total Program Expenses: $22,611,440
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Governance

              

Chief Executive : Gordon S. Brown, President & CEO
Compensation*:
$241,373

Chair of the Board: Bruce Dudley, Chair, Board of Directors
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Attorney

Board Size: 32

Paid Staff Size: 530

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.
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Fund Raising

              

Method(s) Used:

Fund raising methods include direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, print advertisements, television, radio, grant proposals, internet, planned giving arrangements, and a capital campaign.

In addition, Home of the Innocents is a Metro United Way participating agency.

Fund raising costs were 17% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $4,693,927, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)
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Tax Status

              

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
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Financial

              

The following information is based on Home of the Innocents, Inc.'s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.

Ending net assets as reported below include $60,588,055 in unrestricted net assets, $1,038,947 in temporarily restricted net assets, and $2,579,685 in permanently restricted net assets.

Total assets as reported include $55,933,882 in property, land, and equipment.

Revenue as reported below includes $709,177 in captital campaign contributions.

Source of Funds  
Service Revenues 16,868,272
Contributions & Bequests 2,703,024
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments 1,951,868
Grants 1,816,455
Investment Income 622,526
Other Operating Revenue 204,038
Special Events Revenue 174,448
Change in Value of Beneficial Interest in Assets Held By Others 114,755
Gain (Loss) On Sale of Assets 61,032
Loss on Disposal of Fixed Assets -63,297
Total Income $24,453,121


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Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 89%  Fund Raising: 3%  Administrative: 8% 

Total income   $24,453,121
  Program expenses $22,611,440
  Fund raising expenses 814,261
  Administrative expenses 2,038,640
 
Total expenses   $25,464,341
Expenses in Excess of Income   (1,011,220)
Beginning net assets   65,217,907
Ending net assets   64,206,687
Total liabilities   34,015,104
Total assets   $98,221,791

This report was originally issued in April 2011. Financial information in the report was updated in February 2012.

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