Family Life Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942443395
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2016
Forms available
Form 990 2016
Location
Petaluma, CA, USA
Phone
7077956954
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$133,231
Assets
$1,193,703
Liabilities
$825,822

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Susan Lemieux (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KEN BERRICK (Board Member): $279,546 total reported compensation
  • Janet Briggs (CFO, SFA): $217,483 total reported compensation
  • Susan Lemieux (CEO): $135,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Family Life Center (FLC) offers youth ages 12-18 an opportunity to transform dysfunctional and destructive patterns into positive self-sustaining values that encourage a healthy, balanced way of life. Opportunities are provided through educational programs, individual, group and family therapy, expressive arts therapy, speech and language therapy, wilderness education, and vocational and career development.

What it reported doing in 2016

There were no programs in 2016. All programs were closed by December 31, 2015.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.96; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 111.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -99% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -97.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -79.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $280K · 6 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2016
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.