Child and Family Charities

What it reported doing in 2024

Teen Court and Home Based Treatment: Teen Court is a juvenile justice diversion program which serves young first-time offenders who have committed a minor offense. Home Based Adolescent Treatement provides in-home behavioral health services to adolescents with mental health and substance use disorders. Total Expenses: $199,806 Child Abuse Prevention: Primary services include Family Growth Center, Community Outreach & Public Awareness, Medicaid Outreach, and Foster Care Supportive Visitation. Total Expenses: $ 455,729 Higher Ground and T.R.U.E.: Higher Ground provides crisis intervention, non-residential/prevention counseling, case managment, and if necessary, temporary housing shelter for youth ages 12 to 17 and their families. T.R.U.E. (Teens Respecting and Understanding Each Other) is a support and activity based group that provides help and guidance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth between the ages of 14 and 18. Total Expenses: $390,288 Crossroads: Voluntary transitional living program for young people who are unable to live at home. Total Expenses: $908,308 Street Outreach Program: Provides homeless youth immediate access to services. Total Expenses: $237,613 Housing Young Families: Program for young people, ages 17 through 21, who are without permanent safe and stable housing and are either pregnant, parenting, or both. Total Expenses: $240,825 Rapid Rehousing: Provides joint transitional housing and repaid rehousing for homeless and vulnerable youth and their children. Total Expenses: $209,364 Operation Good Cheer: Program that provides Christmas gifts to children in foster care and has them delivered all over the state by way of airplanes. Total Expenses: $1,895,095

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
• Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $38.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 45.8%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings