Cafa
Legal name: Christians as Family Advocates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911787129
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eugene, OR, United States
- Phone
- 541-686-6000
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,378,307
- Expenses
- $2,387,313
- Assets
- $350,693
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSTY REXIUS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RICH TRUETT (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- COREY JACKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- COREY JACKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $126,724 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CAFA's Mission: "Creating a Safer World for Children". CAFA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a group of licensed mental health professionals who provide quality mental health care as well as special programs to the community. At CAFA, faith is our driving motivation to care for those in need in our community. We view faith as a strength and resource for healing and overcoming many of the hardships one may experience. Our faith also guides our delivery of services in an ways that do not discriminate or devalue those of other faiths or whose worldviews do not involve faith. We seek to follow the teachings of Jesus who requests that his followers give to those in need without discriminating. CAFA's Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outgrowing power, anger and control (opac) is a professionally led group for men and women who use anger to control abusively in relationships and desire to change. Opac is a state approved batterer intervention program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $618K reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.