Alliance for Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752363035
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8173357172
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,326,549
- Expenses
- $8,804,468
- Assets
- $22,738,446
- Liabilities
- $596,831
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KONRAD HALBERT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE EVANS (CHIEF EXEC O): $230,790 total reported compensation
- ELAINA BLOUNT (CHIEF FIN OF): $158,550 total reported compensation
- ANTOINETTE OLIVER (CHIEF PEOPLE): $139,466 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the alliance for children is to protect tarrant county children from child abuse through teamed investigation, healing services, and community education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The client relations services department serves as the face of the agency. The client relations specialist acts as the intial contact person for all client, volunteer, and professional inquiries to alliance for children. The children relations specialist supervises children in the reception area and obtains family demographic information from parents and guardians. In addition, the client relations specialist has maintenance responsibilities of the physical facility. Community engagement includes providing child abuse prevention education and personal body, safety, and internet safety. We are committed to providing qualify, free community education that teaches adults and children to recognize, report, and react responsibly to the issue of child abuse. The forensic interview program is staffed by individuals specialized and highly trained regarding child development, memory, suggestibility, linguistics, dynamics of abuse, and question typology. Forensic interviews are investigative in nature and are conducted with children that have possibly experienced or witnessed abuse or violent events. Our forensic interview program provides these highly complex investigate interviews with availability 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -5.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 36 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.