Georgia Parent Support Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581899034
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4043042289
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,063,406
- Expenses
- $3,855,642
- Assets
- $1,519,922
- Liabilities
- $10,270
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUE SMITH (FORMER CEO/D)
- ANNA BOURQUE (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SUE SMITH (FORMER CEO/D): $144,479 total reported compensation
- BRETT BARTON (COO): $94,153 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support, education, and advocacy for children and youths with mental illness, emotional disturbances, and behavioral differences and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided crisis and outreach services to children and adolescents. Services include providing temporary help, treatment, and short-term placement for children and adolescents identified as bein in crisis situations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for affiliated organizations.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.