Family Initiative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461528487
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Cape Coral, FL, USA
Phone
2399100712
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,887,982
Expenses
$5,882,178
Assets
$6,978,064
Liabilities
$449,501

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID BROWN (PRESIDENT)
  • ANJALI VAN DRIE (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID BROWN (PRESIDENT): $136,972 total reported compensation
  • ANJALI VAN DRIE (VICE PRESIDENT): $136,972 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Family initiative, inc. Is committed to engaging in community partnerships to empower families and ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Utilizing a family-centered and holistic approach, our mission is to maintain transparency in collaborating with all we service.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family initiative has continued to grow and expand in 2025. Our largest programs are: clinical services: applied behavorial analysis (aba) and occupational therapy (ot), child welfare programs that include dade, sarasota county, pasco, desoto, manatee and pinellas counties, and autism community based programs, which were expanded in 2025.our autism community based programs include: autism social skills playgroup, teen hangout group, young adult group, sibling group, parent support group, fi creates, fi champs, baby and me group, video club and free autism screenings. All programs are well utilized by the community, with over 2,300 families served. We have increased the number of children served in aba and ot, including both lee county and sarasota county. Our applied behavior analysis program teaches skills and behaviors by using principles of reinforcement. Almost 100% of children served showed a reduction in problem behaviors and an increase in appropriate behaviors. Family initiative's private specialty school, thrive academy, continued to grow in 2025. Enrollment increased to 27 middle and high school students. The child welfare family impact program is based on three unique components to assist our caregivers across Florida in building a stronger trauma informed approach for our children with a history of complex developmental trauma. The first component is preservice training where prospective foster parents will learn about behavior-based, developmentally sensitive, and trauma focused parenting. The second component is using trust based relational intervention (tbri) as a foundation of this training leads into the additional training once families are licensed as foster families. The third component of the program includes in home support for families to assist caregivers in real time to gain proficiency in independently using tbri. The main purpose of this program is to increase stronger, more stable environments and a place for our youth in out of home care to grow and thrive. Our child welfare programs served over 600 families in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 64% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: $562.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 68.7%; rating input score 69; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.