Christian Family Care

What it reported doing in 2024

Strong families for children - offers a secure and temporary home to children, minimizing the risk for abuse or neglect and giving the parents the time and tools they need to help their families thrive. The goal is to provide a safe alternative to child welfare custody, prevent child abuse, and support and stabilize parents that are socially isolated while giving them a circle of support that has a lifelong impact. . Training - christian family care provides trauma-informed classes, counseling, and coaching needed to strengthen and stabilize foster, adoptive, and community families at little to no cost. Christian family care offers a wide range of courses through our family care learning ministry. These courses aim to strengthen families and equip parents and guardians to interact authentically and effectively with at-risk children. . Mentoring - christian family care's mentoring program is designed to provide youth in the foster care system as well as at-risk youth in the community with a mentor who will have a consistent presence in their life. A mentor's support and dedication to building a lasting relationship is encouraging to a youth or young adult in whatever season of life they are in. We carefully match our mentors with young teen and pre-teen foster children. Meetings are one-on-one and face-to-face each month. We hope that a deep, long-term friendship would develop between these pairs and that each youth would be encouraged by the adult's commitment to the meetings and their relationship. . Family care kids - christian family care's early childhood learning center, family care kids, provides education for children from six weeks to pre- kindergarden. The bible is the foundation for our school and drives our compassionate care to all peoples in the community. Our staff all profess a faith in god. Family care kids welcomes every child and family from every background. The goal at family care kids is to ensure children at our school succeed, learn, and grow in a comforting christian environment. Family care kids provides parents and kids access to all the resources of christian family care. . Family coaching - caregiving and parenting are two of the most rewarding and challenging experiences. When caregivers or families experience challenging situations, our coaches provide expert guidance. Our experienced team draws on their foundational understanding of attachment, child development, family systems theory, birth order theory, trauma- informed care, behavior modification, and foundational biblical principles. Our coaches have experience applying clinical understanding to help families with children of all ages and backgrounds. They have significant expertise in supporting families that are currently in the process of providing foster care or pursuing adoption, which makes them especially well equipped to guide caregivers and families in almost any situation. . Young adult services - young adult services, aka, extended foster care (efc) serves young people ages 17.5 - 21 years of age who are/were in the Arizona foster care system. The purpose of this program is to provide an opportunity for young people who were/are dependents on the department of child safety (dcs) at age 18 to voluntarily agree to continue receiving foster care services. The services include but are not limited to living arrangement support, a financial stipend, educational and vocational assistance. While receiving the services, the young adult is working on their goals towards a successful transition to adulthood. This program includes all supportive services as they work alongside the young adults, helping them as they gain competencies in their transition to adulthood. . Thrift store - offers low-cost items to clients of christian family care and the general public. Shopping at christian family care thrift store helps further our mission to strengthen families and serve at risk children in the name of jesus christ. All excess unsold merchandise i

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82.3%; rating input score 82
• Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th 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: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • 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: -2.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings