Family Promise of Lawrence Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262709610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Lawrence, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7858428844
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,879,460
- Expenses
- $1,032,397
- Assets
- $2,394,351
- Liabilities
- $490,857
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW STURTEVANT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DANA ORTIZ (EXECUTIVE DI): $64,323 total reported compensation
- BRENDA WAHL (EXECUTIVE DI): $37,030 total reported compensation
- MONIQUE WAHBA (EXECUTIVE DI): $14,547 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help homeless families with children and those struggling in a housing crisis achieve and maintain permanent housing through prevention, diversion, shelter, and stabilization programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family promise of lawrence (fpl) continues to adjust programs and service offerings as a direct response to the needs presented in our local community. We serve families experiencing a housing crisis through a variety of programs including, prevention, diversion, shelter, and stabilization. Each family served works with a case management team, which includes a case manager, a peer advocate who has lived experience of a housing or homeless situation, as well as with trained volunteers providing additional supports. Each family with their team works through the family's own housing plan. With the case management team, the family enrolled builds their housing plan. The support team then comes alongside each family in programming in order to help the family achieve their own housing plan goals. Wrap around, strength-based case management services are provided for all families and include local partnering agencies as needed for each unique family need. The goal of all programming, no matter where on the spectrum of services that a household enters fpl programs, is to get back into, or maintain housing. Housing is healthcare and during the pandemic, that fact became clearly obvious. Additional programs, such as keys to good tenancy, financial literacy, life skills programs, budgeting and savings match programs all have the primary goal to get families back into housing after a situation of homelessness or to stabilize housing so as to not have to experience homelessness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $849K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.