Family to Family Support Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472778443
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Littleton, CO, USA
Phone
7209369021
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adoption

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$319,994
Expenses
$202,521
Assets
$205,738
Liabilities
$51,253

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • REBECCA L VAHLE (EXECUTIVE DI): $90,838 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 to family support network is a pro-education, non-profit organization that partners with healthcare professionals and community organizations to better serve all families throughout their healthcare experience and beyond.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family to family support network (ffsn) program services include offering best-practice education and tools that empower healthcare professionals to provide respectful, neutral, and compassionate patient care to all families. In 2025, ffsn continued to expand its reach through virtual education and digital programming. Over the last 12 months, ffsn engaged 1,335 new healthcare and community professionals, bringing total participation to 9,316 individuals served through its online learning platform. Ffsn issued 10,480 continuing education credentials to nurses, social workers, and other professionals, supporting their ability to deliver informed and compassionate care. Online engagement continued to grow, with more than 262,200 website views during the year, including a single-day peak of 3,610 visits, demonstrating increased demand for accessible, on- demand educational resources. Ffsn continues to transform the culture in hospitals by offering a new respectful, equitable care (rec) certification that offers 9 hours of continuing education credits to nurses and empowers them to offer respectful, neutral and compassionate care to all families. In 2025, 169 nurses registered for the training and 134 nurses received their full rec certification. In early 2026, ffsn will rollout rec 2.0 which expanded to 15 hours of continuing education credits. Ffsn families remain at the center of all programmatic efforts. Program services include collaborating with industry experts to develop practical, evidence-informed solutions for families and the organizations that serve them. Through these efforts, ffsn continues to bridge the gap between healthcare systems and community-based supports, strengthening the network of care available to all families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.5%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th 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: 36.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.5% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.