Christian Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431008673
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Webster Groves, MO, USA
- Phone
- (314) 968-2216
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Adoption
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,263,497
- Expenses
- $1,125,281
- Assets
- $2,234,942
- Liabilities
- $67,068
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brenda Cody (President)
- Dewayne Donley (Vice-President)
- Eric McPherson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Eric McPherson (Executive Director): $125,964 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian Family Services strives to Love, Serve, Empower, and Connect children, families, and individuals within our community, through Adoption, ConnectCare, Selah Living, Pregnancy Support, and Professional Counseling. Are you pregnant needing financial support? Serving You is Our Mission We believe in the transformative power of selfless service. When you need to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles, our dedicated team is ready to walk alongside you, providing the support, guidance, and resources you need. Embrace hope through our commitment to servanthood, and feel empowered – whether on your own, as a couple, or as a family – and find strength in faith and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Selah Living - To assist those experiencing life challenges with lack of housing, employment, basic life skills through empowering them with resources and financial assistance. Worked with five families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $944K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.