Creative Solutions for Kids and Families Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Cskf is a foster care agency, with the mission of providing treatment services to children, youth, and families in foster care. The organization fulfills its mission by placing children with resource families where they receive treatment services to improve their emotional, social, educational, and psychological well-being to help them achieve their permanency plan.cskf also provides specialty mental health treatment programs that are designed to heal, empower, and stabilize children and youth through individualized, trauma-informed treatment services including (1) assessment (2) plan development (3) targeted case management (4) individual, family, or group therapy sessions; and (5) intensive home-based services.intensive home-based services (ihbs)-intensive service provided in the home, school, and community are intended to deliver crisis intervention, remediate targeted behaviors, and promote stability of placement. The treatment team of licensed clinician, therapist, and behavioral specialist collaborate with the agency social worker and resource parent to help clients achieve short term goals and inculcate successful behavior management skills.the organization has undertaken an expanded contract with riverside university health system-behavioral health, county of riverside for children system of care contract to provide mental health services to its children and youth placed with cskf and children and families in the community through its outpatient services contract. These services involved assessment, care plan development, individual and group counselling, intensive behavioral health services and other forms of therapeutic interventions to address trauma and functional impairment.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings