Family Futures Network Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853073925
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Downey, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3235231292
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,619
- Expenses
- $148,536
- Assets
- $588
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Valicia Alvarez (Founder and President)
People named in this filing
- Tahj Lakey (Project Manager for Internal Systems and Program Development)
- Judith Bullock (Secretary)
- Valicia Alvarez (Founder and President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In 2025, Family Futures Network operated as a charitable organization dedicated to advancing family wellness, early childhood social-emotional learning, community education, and responsive assistance to families in need. The organizations activities focused on developing and supporting educational and wellness-oriented programs that strengthen families, caregivers, and young children, with particular emphasis on culturally relevant learning, emotional resilience, and access to supportive resources. The organization also provided community-based support surrounding food access and holistic wellness, collaborating with aligned partners to expand access to learning opportunities and family-centered resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, Family Futures Network provided mission-aligned program support through partnerships and collaborative initiatives. The organization supported 75 free grocery bags for Compton community members, helped bring together high school volunteers to serve the community, and provided operational assistance (event volunteering) that served approx. 500 people in the South LA area through food access initiatives based on community, culture, food, and music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -93.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 9.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.