ACH Child and Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750818140
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2012, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, United States
- Phone
- 817.335.HOPE (4673)
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,228,576
- Expenses
- $166,442,177
- Assets
- $68,852,880
- Liabilities
- $28,270,367
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WAYNE CARSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WAYNE CARSON (CEO): $525,983 total reported compensation
- SARAH PROCTOR (CFO): $276,028 total reported compensation
- KRIS NAYLOR (COO - OCOK): $272,330 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through strength-based partnership, ACH Child and Family Services brings resources and skills to children and families struggling with life's challenges. Together, we develop solutions that create safety, hope, love, and the capacity to thrive. Donation drives support our kids, families, programs, and services. ACH Child and Family Services accepts donated goods and services to support our mission across the agency. These contributions are donations of goods, services or time – instead of cash. Tangible goods include equipment, books, clothing, furniture, hygiene, and care supplies, along with other goods that may be used in surplus. We can only accept new items, not used. Sometimes called “in-kind donations,” professional services can be donated by groups such as corporations, small businesses, vendors, colleges, individual professionals, or tradespeople. For example, a company may...
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential treaterment center - the only one of its kind in Texas, the residential treatment center provides a secure facility staffed by treatment teams who will put our highest-needs teenagers on an accelerated path to success. In 2024 we served 23 youth in this intensive therapeutic program. Real help for real life - real help for real life offers family preservation services, allowing us to engage with families at risk for child abuse or neglect. Youth and family counseling services are offered free of charge for youth ages 0 to 17 years and their families. Skill builder classes are offered free of charge for youth and parents of youth 10 to 17 years, including teenage mothers. Case management services are offered as well. In 2024, 1411 counseling and skill builder sessions were provided.youth emergency shelter - the youth emergency shelter provides immediate help to youth during a crisis. The only youth shelter in tarrant county, it's a safe place for runaway, homeless and trafficked youth, ages 10 to 17 years. Beyond providing a safe environment, our staff work to help youth in the shelter get treatment, if needed, and find safe, permanent homes. In 2024, we served 177 pre-teens and teens in our shelter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $91.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -3.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $148.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $526K · 29 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $12.9M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 153 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 138 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.