Family Leadership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770537759
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592222300
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,171,917
- Expenses
- $1,994,083
- Assets
- $969,523
- Liabilities
- $49,195
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DWIGHT MILLER (President)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL BUNKER (Executive Dir.): $95,339 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 leadership empowers parents with transformative parenting and leadership skills, equipping them to play a central role in their childrens wellbeing and academic success. As a result, parents thrive as leaders in their homes, schools, and communities.family leadership consistently delivers three key outcomes: positive and sustained parent engagement with schools and the communitystrong, supportive homes that foster excellent learning and emotional wellnessenhanced student academic performance, including improved reading levels, grades, and long-term successour family engagement workshops include parenting partners (building core parenting and leadership skills), calm & kind family (equipping families with emotional wellness and mental health strategies), and the family meals challenge (strengthening shared mealtime practices to boost family connection & nutrition).
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024/2025, family leadership experienced its largest year of growth, partnering with a record 61 school districts and 312 schools, compared with 40 districts and 211 schools the prior year. Family leadership trained more than 1,500 school staff and parent leaders to facilitate local workshops that promote sustainable, bilingual programs in communities nationwide through these partnerships, an estimated 6,240 parents directly participated in family engagement workshops, positively impacting more than 30,000 children nationwide.family engagement workshops include parenting partners, calm & kind family, and the updated family meals challenge. This year, the family meals challenge was expanded with new research on technology, social media, nutrition, and parent engagement, helping families build healthier practices and stronger connections at home.parent survey data confirmed significant family outcomes, including: increased reading time with children, leading to stronger literacy outcomesimproved student attendance and academic performancegreater emotional wellbeing and confidence in navigating challengesmore consistent family meals, healthier nutrition, and reduced screen timeexpanded parent leadership, with many graduates serving as facilitators, school volunteers, or pursuing further education and employment through our pro series professional learning workshops (proleadership, prostrengths, prowebinars and calm & kind campus), we also provided school teams with practical frameworks for healthy community engagement, facilitation skills, strengths-based leadership, and research-based strategies for working with challenging students. These trainings empower educators to build stronger relationships with families, foster positive campus cultures, and create environments where all students can thrive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
STRONG - 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.