New Families Inc

Overview

Mission

Established to recruit, train, and provide extensive services to foster family homes so that children who were in, or might otherwise be placed in, residential treatment facilities can be placed and maintained in foster homes.provides long-term and short-term therapeutic foster care services for children ages 0-18 years. Selective recruitment of foster families, backed up with extensive training and support services provides children with warm, stable, nurturing homes. In every case, emphasis is placed on establishing a plan of permanency for each child.children needing a professional and therapeutic foster care program, including children with moderate psychological, social or physical problems are appropriate referrals. Special attention is given to the emotional and behavioral needs of neglected and abused children and children from dysfunctional families. As part of our program we are prepared to work with birth parents when reunification is a possibility.new families contracts wit

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 79
• Transparency & Controls: 93
• Accountability: 70
• Sustainability: 14
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $574K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
• Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
• Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2022
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 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.

• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.