Benchmark Family Services
Legal name: Benchmark Family Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753157585
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- New Carlisle, OH, US
- Phone
- +19378451070
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,436,387
- Expenses
- $55,277,288
- Assets
- $16,084,434
- Liabilities
- $5,364,650
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL ANDERSON (ASSIST EXEC): $113,412 total reported compensation
- DALE HARTZOG (BOARD PRESID): $200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide therapeutic foster care and support services that strengthen families and improve outcomes for children.
What it reported doing in 2019
Placement of children in foster homes, adoption services, counseling services & training of foster parents
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $4.9M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2009 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.