Friends of Lucas County Children Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010557195
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Maumee, OH, USA
Phone
4192837441
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,911
Expenses
$47,173
Assets
$186,663
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Clare Armbruster (President)

People named in this filing

  • Clare Armbruster (President)
  • Sherry Dunn (Treasurer)
  • Anne Reid Gerber (Board Member)

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

Friends of Lucas County Children Services ("Friends of LCCS") is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of children and families served by Lucas County Children Services ("LCCS") and committed to generating community awareness of the need for more foster and adoptive homes. Friends of LCCS, consisting entirely of volunteers, fulfills this mission by soliciting donations and recruiting volunteers to help sponsor and provide enrichment activities and experiences for the children and families. The organization strives to provide the positive and memorable childhood experiences that every child deserves to have. The organization's activities also serve to uplift the foster parents, relative caregivers, and caseworkers, by showing them how much they are appreciated and by providing them with the opportunities to interact and gain support from each other.

What it reported doing in 2024

Backpack Project. Purchased and assembled over 900 backpacks filled with school supplies to give to children under the care and protection of LCCS so that they could start the school year well equipped and ready to learn.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91

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: -43.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.96; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 14 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.