Ark Homes Foster Family Agency
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200088130
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9099485747
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,436,012
- Expenses
- $2,893,562
- Assets
- $2,301,281
- Liabilities
- $394,460
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- David K Mathias (Exec. Director/Secretary): $192,975 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency is committed to creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for children by matching each child's needs with an appropriate family-based placement and services that promote stability, healing, and a better quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children and youth placed in the Agency's care, supporting emotional stability, trauma recovery, behavioral health needs, placement stability, and overall well-being in accordance with county program requirements.Mental Health Services - San Bernardino County: Under its agreement with the San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health, Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children placed in the Agency's care by San Bernardino County.Mental Health Services - Riverside County: Under its agreement with Riverside University Health System - Behavioral Health, Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children in Intensive Services Foster Care placements referred by Riverside County, including children placed with the Agency and other eligible outside referrals.Psychosocial Services: Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides psychosocial assessment services for families referred by the County of San Bernardino as part of the home study process. The assessment evaluates the family's background, relationships, and psychosocial functioning, and the results are provided to the county for placement and case planning purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 7 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.