Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205924561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5047088376
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,698,110
- Expenses
- $1,457,041
- Assets
- $2,880,927
- Liabilities
- $147
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GINA WOMACK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER)
Highest reported compensation
- GINA WOMACK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER): $179,209 total reported compensation
- PAMELA FONG (FUND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $162,588 total reported compensation
- SONJI HART (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS): $158,572 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Families and friends of Louisiana's incracerated children (fflic) is a statewide, grassroots, membership-based, intergenerational organization working to transform systems that put children at risk of prison. Fflic's mission is to create a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the racial injustice system.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fflic implements a model of organizing that's people-and-community centered, explicitly anti-racist, and reflects the communities we come from. Fflic was founded in 2001 by a group of black parents, mostly mothers, who came together to support one another as their children and loved ones were being targeted and disproportionately impacted by the racial injustice system. Concerned about the destruction of their children's future, this group organized and led the charge for long-term policy reforms. Their collective efforts led to the passage of a landmark bill act 1225 or 2003, which focused on holistic, coordinated systems of care and effectively closed tallulah youth correctional facility, one of the most notorious youth prisons in the nation. Fflic was founded on the belief that people are the power and that those most directly impacted are the chosen ones to lead permanent change by disrupting and dismantling broken racist system. Our goals are to radically transform these systems as well as shift how they treat and value economically challenged black, indigenous, and people of color (bipoc). We have three generations of active family members advocating side by side to eradicate the school-to-prison pipeline that funnels bipoc youth into the justice sytem.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 14.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $179K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.