Family Service Association of Lincoln

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470376584
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lincoln, NE, USA
Phone
4024417949
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,606,657
Expenses
$12,805,760
Assets
$17,285,770
Liabilities
$1,093,285

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DENNIS HOFFMAN (CEO/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DENNIS HOFFMAN (CEO/PRESIDENT): $150,458 total reported compensation
  • GRETCHEN THORNBURG (CFO): $134,038 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Helping families thrive. We are family focused, adaptable, passionate, collaborative, accountable, and preventative.

What it reported doing in 2025

Housing and support services programs provide coordinated resources and care to families to prevent a housing crisis and maintain family stability. Case management support and rental assistance are provided to help families transition from homelessness to housing using the best practice rapid re-housing model. We have three rapid re-housing programs for individuals and families, and one specifically for transition aged youth. We also have a permanent supported housing program for youth. We have one staff member that provides case management to individuals and families with homeless vouchers issued by lincoln housing authority. We also work with the city to provide rental assistance to families with children through referrals from lincoln public schools and wic.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 63% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 - 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: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $11.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.