A Future for Every Child
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824259548
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502794524
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $842,470
- Expenses
- $670,725
- Assets
- $551,811
- Liabilities
- $453
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gita Gopal (President)
People named in this filing
- Gita Gopal (President)
- Prabandham Gopal (Secretary and Treasurer)
- Priya Jadeja (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We prepare orphaned and vulnerable youth for adulthood through our life skills training, actionable career planning, support for vocational training or higher education, job placement and ongoing mentoring programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
We continued to strengthen and expand our Launchpad for Adulthood program with our three charitable partner organizations in India. We are pleased to report that as of end of 2025 we have had 2018 participants in the program including 446 youth enrolled in 2025. To date, 1229 youth have secured employment in steady jobs after successfully completing our program and we have had ~ 5% dropouts. We have also continued our conversational English learning program for the youth and also provided them access to a mental health platform.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $107.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 20.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $652K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 45 of 46 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.