Alliance Human Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043476887
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Southborough, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6173323366
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,614,190
- Expenses
- $5,744,876
- Assets
- $2,387,692
- Liabilities
- $2,148,472
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCIS J GRADY (PRESIDENT & CLERK & CEO)
- DORIS DAVILA (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCIS J GRADY (PRESIDENT & CLERK & CEO): $600,345 total reported compensation
- PAUL KEMP (TREASURER & CFO): $480,922 total reported compensation
- THOMAS LAVALLEE (SECRETARY & COO): $480,782 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 company shall promote and provide safe, healthy, quality services and living environments for children who cannot care for themselves.
What it reported doing in 2024
Alliance human services, inc. Provides foster care services to children and youth who have emotional or behavioral disorders, developmental disabilities, are medically fragile, or are in the juvenile justice system. Most often, the children we serve have been served unsuccessfully in homes in other agencies, or come from more restrictive settings, such as residential schools. In order to support children and youth with significant challenges we recruit, train, and provide on-going counseling and case coordination to talented and caring adults who serve as foster parents. Our foster parents provide homes that are safe, and supportive. We aggressively recruit foster parents from a diverse population. We focus on carefully assessing the strengths and needs of our children and making excellent matches with skilled foster parents. Our foster parents are experienced and compassionate. We are able to support their efforts by ensuring that the children and youth are receiving all other services they need for their success, such as appropriate educational supports, personal or group counseling or therapy, and other case coordination services. In addition, we assist foster parents in obtaining respite so that they can be refreshed while the children are safe and having their needs met.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: -2.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $600K · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 24 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.