Edgewood Center for Children and Families

What it reported doing in 2024

Edgewood non-public school and kinship programs: on our quiet, tree-lined campus, high-schoolers learn in a safe, structured, therapeutic environment and receive individualized care treatment. During the day, the special education teacher at our non-public school's counseling enriched education program (ceep) create and implement individualized learning plans based on the students' specific needs. The great majority of the students attending the school here at edgewood achieve grade level advancement while enrolled in the program. The classroom works towards reintegrating youth back to their regular, least restrictive school setting. Programming includes individual therapy, family therapy and social skills training all designed to help youth improve their functioning and academic success. Kinship- this program supports kin caregivers who are taking care of family members. The program strives to keep families together and children out of the formal foster care system with a success rate of 99%. Outcome data also shows that kinship care providers in the program improved levels of perceived support and greater access to critical services. Compared to nearly 1 in 12 children nationwide, 1 in 6 children in san francisco and san mateo county are being raised by a grandparent or other relative. While the safe home of a caring relative offers kinship children a second chance at a healthy life, physical and emotional disabilities can greatly affect youth self-esteem and motivation to succeed. The behaviors, emotions, and health of kinship youth remain significantly below national norms (and similar to that of foster children). We believe that children do best in their own home environment, supported by their families and their communities, our kinship support network promotes family stability by keeping families together encouraging self-sufficiency, and enhancing family integrity, individual values, and cultural and ethnic diversity. Our institute for research has documented outstanding outcomes for family stability. Children in edgewood's kinship youth services program are 10 times more likely to remain in their kinship home (a sign of family stability and safety) than similar children served only by the child welfare system. An average of ninety-six percent (96%) of the children and youth enrolled in our support network are able to avoid entering the foster care system. Edgewood's kinship program started 30 years ago was the country's first comprehensive public-private partnership to serve kin families, and has grown into the national model for kinship services. Edgewood has also played a key role in the development and passing of ab1193, which created the kinship supportive services program in California in 1997. We are proud to have served as a local and national leader in developing replicable kinship programs, and were previously the sole provider of technical assistance and training of all California's kinship support services sites. Edgewood has the depth of experience and expertise necessary to raise vulnerability necessary to raise visibility of the need to support kinship caregivers.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
• Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $14.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Missing
• 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: -9.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings