Family and Children's Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221487179
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9083527474
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,745,065
- Expenses
- $2,137,356
- Assets
- $798,070
- Liabilities
- $423,903
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Malika Cook (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JEANNE MARIE RYAN (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN DOUGHERTY (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAUL MONROE (1st Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Malika Cook (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $152,438 total reported compensation
- Colleen D Williams (Director of Finance): $136,885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Strengthening individuals and families by providing comprehensive, personalized behavioral health and social services with a priority on serving those most in need of services.
What it reported doing in 2024
FAMILY PERMANENCY SERVICES: In-Home therapy, In-Home case management and In-Office therapy provided to families and individuals to prevent an occurrence of abuse or removal of children from their homes In Home Life Skills Companionship Program (DCPP) - In-home support education and case management services to help parents and caretakers deal with the emotional and behavioral problems of their children Parenting Skills (DCPP) - Parenting courses for parents referred by DCPP and the courts - Parenting group targeting parents of children ages 2-12. The program emphasizes social consequences for behaviors and educates parents to 5 basic parenting methods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.