Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Family engagement is a family-centered and strengths-based approach to making decisions, setting goals and achieving desired outomes for our club members and their families. BGCGH believes in creating and sustaining strong relationships with families through engagement, empowerment, and access to community partners to positively impact the well-being of the whole family. BGCGH achieves this through family enagement, partner roundtables and family fun fests. Family engagement events are BGCGH events in which parents are invited as the audience as well as participants. The added criteria to BGCGH events which makes these events unique is an intentional thought of including community partners that will add benefit to families through these connections. We use this opportunity to bridge the gap of services that are available within a given community, which parents may not otherwise have. Parents receive information, ask questions and sign up for various services during our family engagements events. Clubs are required to have a minimum of two family engagement events per year. Family roundtables are BGCGH club meetings held with parents of club members and are facilitated by the club director. The goal of parent roundtables is to solicit input/feedback from parents regarding the club experience. Typicallly, 10-15 parents are invited to participate in the roundtables. The roundtable atmosphere is a "safe" place in which parents are invited to share positive experiences as well as share opportunities for the club to optimize the club experience for members and parents. Clubs are required to have a minimum of two roundtables per year. Family fun fests are typically Saturday events at clubs designed to provide FUN for club members and parents. Family fun fests are similar to traditional family engagement events as community partners who can provide benefit to families are invited. The added component making family fun fests different from traditional family engagement is a carnival-like atmosphere focused on engagement of club staff, club members, parents and community partners. Clubs are clustered for family fun fests (those within a reasonable vicinity) while others have individual family fun fests (those in rural areas not within reasonable distance).

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
• Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
• Fundraising efficiency: $11.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st 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: Pass
  • 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; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 97.5%; rating input score 98; 31st 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: -1.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings