MCHS Family of Services
Legal name: Methodist Children's Home Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381240951
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Redford, MI, United States
- Phone
- (313) 531-4060
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,831,506
- Expenses
- $18,562,222
- Assets
- $28,016,258
- Liabilities
- $3,982,990
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Pelton JD (President)
- Christine Weemhoff (Vice President)
- Dr Douglas Ross (Past President)
- Kevin Roach (CEO & Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Kevin Roach (CEO & Director): $366,725 total reported compensation
- Lindsay Joseph (CFO): $194,769 total reported compensation
- Katrina Edmon (COO): $166,777 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MISSION, VISION, CORE VALUES Our Mission MCHS Family of Services provides individualized treatment, care, advocacy, and permanency to children and families impacted by childhood trauma. MCHS Family of Services provides individualized treatment, care, advocacy, and permanency to children and families impacted by childhood trauma. Vision. Vision Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Housing -Provided transitional housing, treatment, life skills, education and case management support for:1) New or expecting parents between the ages of 18-25 who were homeless2) Youth aging out of foster care3) Returning, nonviolent female citizens4) Runaway and homeless youth
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th 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: 10.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $367K · 22 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $827K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 52/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.