Family Independence Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823528268
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Roxbury, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175410944
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,370,910
- Expenses
- $1,826,349
- Assets
- $9,619,098
- Liabilities
- $1,016,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCE A NEFF LMHC BCC (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCE A NEFF LMHC BCC (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $163,422 total reported compensation
- TERRI WILLIAMS (PROGRAM MANAGER): $124,193 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Family independence, inc. Will provide group home living for teen mothers and their children who are receiving public assistance and are unable to live with their families or the children's fathers due to abuse, neglect, substance abuse or other extenuating circumstances. The organization will conduct various programs to help these mothers and children move toward social independence and economic self-sufficiency. These programs will assist the teen mothers to complete high school or equivalent education, practice good parenting and life management skills, avoid child abuse, and raise healthy, emotionally stable and school-ready children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.27; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.5% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.