Partnership for Strong Families Inc

Overview

Mission

To enhance the community's ability to protect and nurture children by building, maintaining and constantly improving a network of family support services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Adoption: to establish permanency for children to enable them to grow and develop to their fullest potential. To meet this goal, potential adoptive families are recruited for children whose parent's rights have been terminated, permanently committing the children to the department. Following adoption placement, the agency supervises the child's adoptive placement a minimum of 90 days before the adoption can be finalized. Post placement supervision is not required if the child has resided in the home in foster care status for 90 or more days. During the fiscal year ended 6/30/25 178 adoptions were finalized.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 83% of its reported program work directly.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030423150
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Headquarters
Gainesville, FL, USA
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health

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The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited
  • Public monitoring controls: Limited
  • Public policy transparency: Limited
  • Public financial transparency: Limited
  • Impact reporting controls: Limited
  • Public relationship transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Public governance controls: Limited
  • Zakat policy transparency: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Operating reserve ratio: 0.22; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $52M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $172K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
  • Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links