National Center for Families Learning Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Family literacy programs: ncfl's family literacy programs operate under the traditional, four component family literacy model and is federally defined. Family literacy includes adult education, children's education, parent education, and interactive parent-child activities. This place-based model is built on intensity and duration of services and is focused on both child and adult outcomes. Family leadership: ncfl defines family leadership as strategies and services that improve and enhance the leadership skills of parenting adults and that are designed to support families in becoming better champions for themselves, their families, and communities. Ncfl programs are underpinned by a research-based family service-learning framework intended to strengthen communities by fostering leadership skills. This six-step approach is meant to provide parent leaders with a guide for solving an existing community problem and to serve as a template for addressing future problems.family engagement: ncfl defines family engagement as the partnership between families and practitioners aimed at providing children and families with voice and agency throughout educational systems and within communities for the benefit of improving learning outcomes. Ncfl offers three types of family engagement models to support student success across p-12 learning environments. Ncfl supports family engagement through in and out-of-school-time experiences through a variety of resources including opportunities to learn in public and school libraries.collaborative community models: ncfl supports the creation, facilitation, and enhancement of collaborative community models in locations across the country to build aligned and coordinate family learning systems that support multigenerational programs, birth through adulthood. These collaboratives serve as an anchor for the community to identify shared goals, language, and data. Community collaboratives unite a cross-sector group of community stakeholders that welcome and work alongside families to build multigenerational systems of learning that are streamlined, connected, and meet expressed family learning needs and priorities.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
• Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 84.9%; rating input score 85; 18th 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; 66th 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: -0.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings