Fostering Life-changing Opportunities

What it reported doing in 2024

Emergency & basic needs assistanceflourish community support specialists and youth specialists help submit and process requests for emergency and basic needs assistance for flourish youth participants and their families. Agreement plans are created with case management goals to prevent the needs from recurring, when possible. Most funding for this program comes from fundraising events. Needs categories include education-related, employment-related, food, medical/physical/mental health, shelter/housing, technology/communication, and transportation. Meeting basic needs through this program helps address barriers to participation in flo's other programs, often begins or increases the depth of engagement, and enhances wellbeing outcomes overall. Internships flourish internships have grown into two stepped-programs, prep i and prep ii, and are offered to rising juniors and recent high school graduates experiencing barriers to higher education or employment. The interns work either part-or full-time and receive personal and professional development in a real-world, corporate setting. Prep i interns work part-time and apply their learning to complete a service project while prep ii gets more hand-on experience at 40 hours a week with only one programming day weekly. Interns in both programs walk away with an employment portfolio, interview outfit, a future career or higher education plan, and enhanced soft and hard employment skills. Their performance is managed and evaluated along with their final presentation. Upon successful completion, each intern receives a scholarship for costs associated with higher education programs. Case managementcase management is a wrap-around service woven throughout all flourish programs. Qualified youth specialists and community support specialists engage, assess, intervene, refer, monitor, evaluate, discharge, and follow-up long-term with flourish program participants and sometimes their families, to ensure basic (physical, environmental, social, emotional, and behavioral health needs) are met and that services are coordinated and across programs of flourish and its community partners. Boone county youth moveflourish prep interns, with the support of boone county community services, initiated a local chapter within the membership network of youth move national, in summer of 2022. Boone county youth move is a youth-led effort, with up to four youth leadership committee chairs who are eligible for stipends, responsible for engaging other community youth to participate in its activities and monthly meetings on a voluntary basis. Staff from flourish and its community partners serve as supportive adults to help youth identify and implement strategies to lead change on issues that matter to them. The youth's priority strategies include providing peer-led life skills workshops and fun, safe activities for youth as a means of preventing youth violence. As flo transitional housing expands with yhdp, flo is slowly beginning to transition this collaborative effort of maintaining the local chapter to community partners who have more capacity for youth-led advocacy/organizing. The 2-year grant through boone county for youth move funding ended december 2024.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
• Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $415.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 30%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.37; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings