Faces in Need Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454439649
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Palm Bch Gdns, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8282468881
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $644,047
- Expenses
- $182,332
- Assets
- $873,932
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul B Butler Jr (President Treasurer and Board Chair)
- John Darling (Vice President and Vice Chair of Board)
- Linda Darling (Vice President and Board Member)
- Debra Dioguardi (President in waiting and Board Vice Chair)
People named in this filing
- Paul B Butler Jr (President Treasurer and Board Chair)
- John Darling (Vice President and Vice Chair of Board)
- Linda Darling (Vice President and Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Funding provided to Faces In Need NPC NPO in South Africa for the operation of The Manaleni Achievement Centre. The Centre ministers to cares for approximately 80 students in Grades 3 through 12 by providing food a computer lab school uniforms homework assistance a Music & Arts Program and post secondary schooling financial assistance. Faces In Need Inc. comes alongside another charity Camp Bethel Inc. that operates a Day Centre known as Bethel House located in Waynesville NC. The clients of Bethel House are homeless or near homeless. Faces pays for medical dental prescription drugs vision and hearing needs to the extent those expenses are not covered by insurance. Faces also pays for fuel for transporting the clients to their appointments. Additionally Faces In Need Inc works to come alongside those experiencing housing and food insecurity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Faces In Need Inc. comes alongside another charity Camp Bethel Inc. that operates a Day Centre known as Bethel House located in Waynesville NC. The clients of Bethel House are homeless or near homeless. Faces pays for medical dental prescription drugs vision and hearing needs to the extent those expenses are not covered by insurance. Faces also pays for fuel for transporting the clients to their appointments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.1%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 71.7%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.79; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.1% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.