ACH Child and Family Services
Legal name: All Church Home for Children Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383757541
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, United States
- Phone
- 817.335.HOPE (4673)
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,270,651
- Expenses
- $17,816,025
- Assets
- $133,236,865
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 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
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Protecting Children. Preserving Families. Since 1915. 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...
What it reported doing in 2024
The all church home for children foundation manages endowments and reserves for the benefit of ach child and family services (ach). The foundation provides funds to be used for ach's operations and capital improvements to the facilities utilized to support ach's mission of protecting children and preserving families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.48; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $526K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 7 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.