Family Centered Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
351768199
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bluffton, IN, USA
Phone
2608248574
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,229,812
Expenses
$1,596,063
Assets
$2,217,421
Liabilities
$125,155

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PERRY GERBER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAIGE HAMILTON (EXECUTIVE DI): $77,050 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To strengthen our community by empowering families and youth through services that educate and inspire.

What it reported doing in 2024

Families in transition - its mission is to help parents understand the importance of working together to minimize the impact of divorce on their children. This is a court-mandated program for both adams and wells counties. Its purpose is to focus on ways parents can reduce the effects of the divorce on their children, how to effectively reassure their children as they adjust to the changes in their lives, as well as understand their own feelings of loss and grief. Mentor moms - the mission of the mentor moms program is to offer support, education, and friendship to young mothers. It strives to encourage positive parenting skills by matching moms with mentors who are trained, supervised, and supported. The program addresses in a very personal and supportive way the crucial need for at-risk moms to have support and encouragement in raising a child. It aims to help young mothers explore new options, problem-solve, and make life-affirming goals and choices for her and her child. Teen court - the wells county teen court program is a diversion program that holds juveniles accountable for their actions while reducing the caseload of local courts and probation officers. The program provides education, training, and "hands-on" participation for youth volunteers and promotes respect for the rule of the law. The program increases appreciation for the legal system in both offenders and volunteers. There are two additional components of this program. S.i.g.n.a.l.s. Is a substance abuse awareness, prevention, intervention, and education program that helps teens learn the importance of making responsible, mature, and informed decisions. D.e.t.o.u.r.s. Is a character education program that focuses on emotional self-control, bullying, common courtesy and dangerous decisions. Youth as resources - the program's goal is to inspire and instill excellence in youth through the provision of grants, written and approved by youth, for the purpose of community improvement. Youth as resources promotes learning life-long skills and engages youth to bring positive changes to their community and improve the lives of others. The closet - this program assists families in the community by providing free clothing and necessities for infants and preschool aged children. The closet is a non-intimidating environment that respects the dignity of those in the community who need assistance. Parent cafe - the mission of this program is to provide group meetings that provide meaningful, reflective conversations that promote leadership and collaboration to help keep families strong, to promote well-being, healing, and peace, and to prevent child abuse and neglect. Community partners - the mission of community partners is to provide a secondary child abuse prevention service. This service will build community resources in order to have a collaborative prevention network. The service will provide services to connect families to resources to strengthen the family and prevent child abuse and neglect

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 72% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -29.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.