Center for Family Representation Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Community advocacy project (cap) 608,249: cap provides 'early defense' to parents facing a city investigation of maltreatment, with the goal of avoiding a court prosecution altogether and keeping families intact and connected to services. Cap also provides parents with representation to modify the state records that correspond to a family policing investigation; the records often prevent parents from seeking employment in fields where employers regularly check these records. When a parent's family defense case is dismissed or they have overcome challenges that lead to maltreatment charges, cap assists parents with amending these records, thus expanding employment opportunities for our clients. Home for good 1,488,767: cfr families often face several challenges in addition to a family court case and often need assistance in the areas of housing (to prevent eviction and obtain stable housing), immigration (to achieve legal status and access culturally competent services), public benefits (to secure and sustain important benefits like medicaid), and in criminal court (to defend allegations that are related to their family court case). Challenges in any of these areas can lead children to enter, remain in, or re-enter the foster system. Our home for good initiative gives families an efficient one-stop solution to provide them with needed advocacy in these other areas and so keep their families stable. Our civil legal services team, immigration team, and criminal defense teams assist more than 650 families annually to keep their children home for good.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $50.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 66th 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%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings