Allies for Every Child Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Child Welfare Services: Since our inception, Allies' priority population has been and continues to be children who are involved with the child welfare system. Allies' Foster Care and Adoption program-partially funded by LA County Department of Children and Family Services (LA DCFS) and strengthened through the merger with Extraordinary Families - works to break the devastating cycles associated with aging out of foster care without a permanent home, including homelessness, poverty, and incarceration. The merger expanded our permanency services infrastructure, recruitment efforts, and caregiver supports, adding service sites in Koreatown and Long Beach.We seek affirming, nurturing, well-equipped families for children and youth in the foster care system, especially youth who are disproportionately represented, including older children and teens, sibling sets, children of color, and LGBTQ+ youth. Allies recruits, trains, and certifies foster families who are driven by a desire to ensure that every child has the childhood they deserve. Allies' social workers and licensed clinicians provide extensive training and support to equip foster parents with the skills necessary to parent children who have experienced trauma, and to ensure parents are ready to embrace and support the children who need them.Allies is committed to keeping families together whenever possible. Through our Family Preservation program and related child welfare programming, Allies partners with families who have been referred to us by LA DCFS due to substantiated allegations of abuse or neglect, as well as other vulnerable families in the community. Families access a range of services aimed at healing and strengthening relationships to keep children in their birth/first home-when possible and in the child's best interest-and prevent the need for further child welfare system involvement.A recent review by LA DCFS showed that 96% of families who participated in Allies' Family Preservation program did not have repeated engagement with the child welfare system. These outcomes are a result of Allies' multidisciplinary team (overseen by licensed clinicians) addressing issues related to trauma, domestic violence, substance dependence, and parenting through in-home assessments and counseling, child and family mental health services, and intensive case management. Allies also works with families to build protective factors-characteristics proven to reduce the risk of child maltreatment-and offers family activities and community events that provide critical support by reducing social isolation, building resilience, and providing direct and concrete resources that reduce stress.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
• Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $71.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • 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: 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: 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: 0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings