Kids First of Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431992162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Orange Park, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9042785644
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,966,366
- Expenses
- $13,445,878
- Assets
- $22,406,285
- Liabilities
- $18,505,754
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH FRANCO (CEO)
People named in this filing
- KIM COLE (DIRECTOR)
- DONNA GADDIS (DIRECTOR)
- DON MARTIN (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide children with foster care placement, case management, adoption, physical and emotional support, liaison with the health department, independent living, prevention, preservation, diversion services, parenting services, in-home therapy, and child mental health services.
What it reported doing in 2024
There were 60 active licensed foster homes by the end of the fiscal year. There were 341 children in care, at the end of the fiscal year, with 97 of the children residing with their parents, 56 in relative care, 24 in nonrelative care, 164 in licensed care (153 in foster homes and 3 in group homes). There were 72 adoptions completed, during the fiscal year. There were 20 adults (age 18 to 23) in the independent living program and 11 adults in the extended foster care program. There were 79 children under courtesy supervision from other counties.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
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 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.