Individual & Family Support Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680222942
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Phone
7075467907
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,265,837
Expenses
$5,245,002
Assets
$3,415,758
Liabilities
$991,377

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jill Lowry (CEO -BEG 6/2025)
  • Eric Haugen (President)
  • Patrick Paul (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Monica Savon-end 325 (Executive Dir.): $112,011 total reported compensation
  • Jill Lowry (CEO -BEG 6/2025): $24,911 total reported compensation
  • Kim Clement 325-525 (Interim ED): $13,600 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

IFSN provides housing and a hand up for homeless and housing insecure indivduals and families in Sonoma County and neighboring areas; in an atmosphere of dignity, respect and kindness; towards an outcome of empowerment, self-sufficiency and independence.

What it reported doing in 2024

Hybrid Rapid Re-Housing and Transitional Housing Programs: IFSN operated three transitional houses under the Hybrid Rapid Re-Housing and Transitional Housing program during the year ended June 30, 2025. IFSN provides interim housing and permanent housing placement services to homeless families involved with child welfare and college students. IFSN may serve up to 11 homeless families at a time and up to 8 college students in these transitional houses. IFSN provides familes with case management, housing search and placement, counseling, job placement, credit repair, and budgeting services. We also provide rental assistance to families to help with their transition into permanent housing. We continue to support these families with housing stability case management for up to 24 months while they are in permanent housing.IFSN provides college students with housing navigation and location, flexible rental subsidies, and supportive services to assist individuals experiencing homelessness to obtain permanent housing and complete educational goals as quickly as possible.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 82% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • 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: 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.