Interface Children Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952944459
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Camarillo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054856114
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,474,283
- Expenses
- $16,088,701
- Assets
- $7,636,899
- Liabilities
- $3,316,860
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Erik Sternad (Executive Dir.): $362,674 total reported compensation
- Michael Redard (Former CFO): $261,859 total reported compensation
- Stacia Renee Swanson (Chief Dev. Officer): $181,087 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since 1973, Interface has provided responsive and life-changing support for children, teens, individuals, and families through our diverse service portfolio utilizing 30+ evidence-based practices to support those who are struggling with domestic violence, human trafficking, homelessness, incarceration, child abuse, mental health concerns, and trauma-related challenges.
What it reported doing in 2024
Enhanced Care Management In March 2025, Interface launched a new Enhanced Care Management program. Enhanced Care Management (ECM) provides intensive, personalized support for high-needs individuals. ECM connects Medi-Cal members with a Lead Care Manager who coordinates complex medical, behavioral, and social needs such as housing, food, and transportation, aiming to improve health outcomes and reduce hospital visits by addressing the social determinants of health and providing in-home, community-based care. We expect to serve thousands this year, ensuring that our most vulnerable community members receive the loving care and support they deserve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $12.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $363K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.