Landmarks for Families Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Family Education & SupportOur Family Education and Support programs aim to connect families, build support networks, and enhance social involvement. These programs help support children and families through relationship and skill-building, which are protective factors that contribute to thriving families. Services include Parent Education & Support, Summer Programs, After-School Programs, Teen Skill-Building, and Grief Support. These programs are offered in schools, at community facilities, or on one of our campuses. Landmarks for Families offers a variety of workshops, groups, and one-on-one support to caregivers and families seeking knowledge, support, and skill-building. Programs include: Strengthening Families Program: Partnering with Children's Trust of SC, Landmarks for Families is a local provider of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) for families with children ages 6-16. The trengthening Families Program is a 14-session, weekly program. Each session typically lasts 1 hours and includes parents and children meeting separately to work with group leaders before coming together for shared activities. Participants who complete the 14-session program graduate in a celebratory style.These groups, held in community centers, schools, and churches, are designed to help families: >Develop positive discipline practices > Stay resilient in tough times> Reduce conflict> Improve parenting skills> Assist children with social skills, relationships, and school performanceAll of these factors play an important role in keeping families strong, safe, and connected while protecting them from behaviors that could result in potential abuse or neglect and adverse childhood experiences.Keep Connected Workshops & Groups: Keep Connected is a research-based, family engagement program that allows parents and teens to learn about positive family relationships during their transition to adolescence.Healthy, strong family relationships are foundational to young people's growth, learning, and well-being. These relationships build strong social and emotional foundations that teens will use throughout their lives. These relationships are important and take effort! Keep Connected workshops offer ideas, activities, and experiences that help build strong family relationships, tools to enhance positive family bonding, and new ways to stay connected as teens grow up. The workshops are for families of pre-teens and teens aged 10-17. Keep Connected workshops include time for:> Parents to explore challenges and strategies with other parenting adults> Youth to explore family relationships with other youth> Parents and youth to explore their relationships together> Strategies and tools to connect and build trust with their familiesEligibility: - All families of pre-teens or teens between the ages of 10 and 17.Freedom Schools Program (through 2025)In partnership with the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), Landmarks for Families has been a host of the Freedom Schools program. The CDF Freedom Schools program is a research-based, multicultural, summer literacy camp that provides an enriching curriculum that supports children and families around five essential components:1. High-quality academic enrichment2. Parent and family involvement3. Civic engagement and social action4. Intergenerational leadership development5. Nutrition, health, and mental healthThe Freedom Schools program fosters environments that support children and young adults (known as "scholars" in the CDF Freedom Schools program) to excel and believe in their ability to make a difference in themselves, their families, schools, communities, country, and world, with hope, education, and action.The Freedom Schools programs empower scholars to believe in their ability and responsibility to make a difference while instilling in them a love of reading to help them avoid summer learning loss. The program boosts student motivation to read, generates more positive attitudes toward learning, and connects the ne

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
• Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• 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: 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: -16.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings