Families Advocating for Voices of Resilience Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273304380
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Phone
4045878286
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$514,680
Expenses
$525,015
Assets
$20,601
Liabilities
$12,436

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Highest reported compensation

  • CARMEN COATES (CEOEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $48,829 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To ensure families have a voice in their treatment, by educating, strengthening and empowering them while in their present circumstances.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided mental health and everyday successful living programs to help young adults and families thrive in our community. Families advocating for voices of resilience, inc favor achievements includes but not limited to the following: expanded peer support services: successfully integrated additional services into the program to support families in apsychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf); food assistance: provided meals to over 1,000 families through food drives and partnerships with local food banks; holiday support: distributed toys and holiday dinners to families in need during the christmas season, ensuring a joyful celebration for many; youth support group initiative: launched a youth support group focused on mental health awareness and suicide prevention, providing teens with a safe space to share their experiences and to seek help; (continued on page 1 schedule o).

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $397K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.