Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161749619
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
Location
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Phone
8058840012
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$793,220
Expenses
$705,606
Assets
$741,098
Liabilities
$2,322

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MEGAN ORLOFF (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LORI BAUR (PRESIDENT)
  • ELIZABETH MOSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERI)
  • RAECHELLE BOWLAY-SUTTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELIZABETH MOSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERI): $95,833 total reported compensation
  • RAECHELLE BOWLAY-SUTTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $36,458 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Angels foster care protects abused, neglected and abandoned infants and toddlers, nurtures them in one loving home until adoption or reunification, and ensures that they reach their maximum development potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

Angels foster care of santa barbara enhances the lives of foster babies and toddlers that have been taken in to care by child protective services for abuse, neglect or abandonment in santa barbara county. The program carefully matches each child to a caring angels foster family who keeps them the entire time they are in dependency. Each home has a full time parent to help the child to bond and attach. This stability and love lead to secure attachment, excellent medical and developmental care and no interruption in services. Once a permanent plan for the child is decided in dependency court the child is reunified with their biological family or when this is not possible, adopted, often by their angels parents.(please see schedule o for continuation) angels has added our support services to families caring for relatives in foster care aged 0-5 years. Angels program service accomplishments to date include the following:* in 2025, angels continued its work as a treatment foster family agency, providing a high level of training and support to children and angels families. * 330 infants and toddlers have been placed with angels' foster families.* 168 children have been adopted by their angels family.* 71 children have been reunified with their birth parent(s).* 108 children were served by angels foster care in 2025.angels foster care continues to serve our community's youngest foster children with excellence. We are the referral of choice for foster children 3 years and under and sibling sets up to age 5 in santa barbara county. Teamed with our community partners we are raising the standard for foster youth in our community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $618K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.