International Christian Adoptions | Institute for Children's Aid
Legal name: International Christian Adoptions Institute for Childrens Aid
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330412343
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Temecula, CA, US
- Phone
- (888) 507-9360
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,278,855
- Expenses
- $7,155,929
- Assets
- $3,916,475
- Liabilities
- $419,382
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA DUKE (President)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA DUKE (President): $114,626 total reported compensation
- CHARLOTTE PAULSEN (Executive Dir.): $103,976 total reported compensation
- RUTH VILLARANDA (Non Voting Memb): $89,126 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 children and youth with safe, loving families through adoption, foster care, and refugee services, guided by Christian faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
Domestic programs provide licensed adoption and foster family agency services through the adoption triad with compassionate and caring services. The program also provides compassion and relief services to domestic orphanages as well children in domestic residential facilities. Relief services include goods delivered as well as foreign exchange programs, transition homes and micro businesses. Counseling and support center provides support groups and counseling services for birth parents, adopted children, adoptive parents, foster children and foster parents. Family training center provides classes to prepare the adoptive and foster families for the special development or emotional challenges that accompany children from institutional care. We provide ongoing support for the adoptive family and the children they are parenting including support groups and pre post placement. Ica has placed and worked with over 200 children this past year in placements for adoption.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th 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: 1.7%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 16 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.