Mississippi Families for Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721371828
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jackson, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6019577670
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $625,500
- Expenses
- $644,117
- Assets
- $260,118
- Liabilities
- $54,930
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAYS COLLINS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILLIE ABSTON (DIRECTOR)
- NADEANE CATTRELL (EXECUTIVE DI)
- HAYS COLLINS (PRESIDENT)
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
To ensure that every child in foster care and in the child welfare system finds a permanent home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Help me grow - the purpose of the help me grow system is to identify at- risk children and to help families find community based programs and services. The help me grow system trains physicians in early detection screening, surveillance, and connection to services. Research shows that having this system increases early identification for children who are at- risk for delays. Families in Mississippi suffer because they live in areas where there are4 limited health and mental health services, leaving children untreated. The overall goal of the help me grow system is to close service gaps and provide quick access through the development of a centralized information and referral center that will (1) connect children and families to an array of community based children's health, early care, and education, family support and mental services where they live, and (2) to strengthen skills in developmental surveillance and screening and enhance the early detection of children at risk for adverse developmental and behavioral outcomes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $5,592 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $525K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.