Koinonia Family Services

Overview

Mission

We exist to bring hope and healing to children, youth and families through meaningful relationships and quality programs and services. Koinonia equips resource parents for the challenge of caring for foster youth who come from hard places and facilitates family reunification whenever possible. We hire staff who have a passion for our mission and maintain a highly-relational culture throughout all aspects of our organization. Whether it’s the connection with our foster youth, staff members, resource parents, county workers, or birth parents, all of these relationships play an important role in promoting healing and providing permanency. We are a parent-focused agency that provides trauma-informed training and extensive support to our resource parents. With this specialized approach, we see healing and growth taking place in.

Operating model

Revenue model

Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.

Distribution model

Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.

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: 75
• Transparency & Controls: 83
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 34
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28.2M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $212K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
• Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
• Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 7 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.

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 15/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.