Family Connections Christian Adoptions
Legal name: American Adoptions of California Dba Family Connection Christian Adoption
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770315220
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Phone
- (209) 524-8844
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,424,053
- Expenses
- $3,802,505
- Assets
- $5,081,747
- Liabilities
- $517,961
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN VAN DONSELAAR (President)
- RICH HOCHANADEL (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- WAYNE MOTT (Executive Dir.): $159,859 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Family Connections Christian Adoptions (FCCA) exists to assist waiting children into loving, permanent families; described as a “living expression of our love for Jesus Christ.”. Now, over 39 years later, the agency has placed (directly or cooperatively) over 7,000 children from the United States and around the world into adoptive families. Audrey’s daughter, Alison Foster Davis, served as the second Executive Director from May 2001 through December 2016; the current Executive Director is Wayne Mott, who has been with FCCA since 2005. Four FCCA offices are located throughout California, with the main office in Modesto, and branch offices in Sacramento, Fresno, and Carlsbad. The agency is licensed statewide and employs approximately 20 people, with many faithful volunteers. Our Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family connections christian adoptions provides quality services to place waiting children and special needs children into permanent, loving families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.