Families NOW
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261667839
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5304772900
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,906
- Expenses
- $205,120
- Assets
- $53,630
- Liabilities
- $11,025
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Addie Ellis EdD (Executive Director)
- Steve Kempster (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Addie Ellis EdD (Executive Director)
- Steve Kempster (Executive Director)
- Gail Johnson Vaughan (Director Emerita/Chief Permanency Officer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Increase permanent families for children and teens in foster care; provide support to nonprofit and governmental child welfare and human services agencies.
What it reported doing in 2017
1. Youth Permanency - This program assists counties develop effective specialized youth permanency services and remove budget barriers to increase the number of youth in foster care who achieve permanent families. Our funding methodology documents fiscal data on savings achieved when youth move from high cost foster care into permanent families. Reinvesting these savings allows a county to sustain and expand successful specialized youth permanency services at no net cost. We bring the fiscal wisdom of private sector with its expectation of a return on investment to county financing creating a dual bottom line, families for children and lower county costs. Sample Accomplishment: In 2014 Families NOW worked closely with Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services, their elected Board of Supervisors, and youth permanency private agency partner resulting in a 50% expansion in the number of youth served by their successful Destination Family Youth Permanency Program. Program expansion utilized reinvestment of savings achieved through the program. Using our reinvestment funding methodology, Sacramento County has enjoyed a 100+% return on the investment of county funds allowing them to not only sustain a federal grant-funded youth permanency program serving older youth in foster, but to also expand the number of youth served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.