Friends of Families

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330504983
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Cypress, CA, USA
Phone
7147269790
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,134
Expenses
$51,626
Assets
$28,430

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • George Grachen (President)

People named in this filing

  • Deanne Grachen (Secretary)
  • Stephan Trinkle (Director)
  • Thomas Loveless (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Primary exempt purpose is to raise funds which are then distributed to other localcharities, including charities that benefit children, childrens sports, seniors in need, and the homeless.

What it reported doing in 2024

Friends of Families in 2023-2024 donated funds to support children, education, seniors, the handicapped, youth programs, and the homeless in the cities of Stanton, Anaheim and Buena Park. Friends of Families has coordinated and helped to donate food including Meat, Produce, Fruit, Vegetables, and non-perishable items to The City of Anaheim in the past 12 months. See the letter below from the City of Anaheim. Friends of Families has partnered with Councilwoman Denise Barnes to ensure that the Seniors in West and Central Anaheim living in mobile home parks were given perishable and non-perishable food twice a week from January to present representing over 3,850 meals. Friends of Families donated 625,000+ diapers to Anaheim, Buena Park, and Stanton families from January though December at various community food distributions. Friends of Families facilitated a donation of 2,500 frozen turkeys for a Thanksgiving food drive in the City of Stanton Friends of Families Facilitated a Christmas Food and Toy distribution in the City of Stanton that served 1,500 families and 3,000 children received a new toy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 70% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.