Adoption Center for Family Building
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204651755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Vernon Hills, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8474310834
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $474,081
- Expenses
- $656,024
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joanne Kron (President)
Highest reported compensation
- LINDA FIORE (Executive Dir.): $110,779 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To benefit families by providing education, support and opportunities for family building. The organization is committed to safeguarding the welfare of childred and providing the highest standards of service to birth and adoptive parents.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide counseling and consulting services to prospective adoptive families seeking to adopt a child. Sliding fee schedule available for prospective adoptive parents with gross income below certain level.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 60%; rating input score 60; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 57.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $375K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.