Peninsula Family Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943315163
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6692378911
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,721,657
- Expenses
- $1,924,628
- Assets
- $1,169,950
- Liabilities
- $141,420
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC VALLADARES (Executive Dir.): $149,272 total reported compensation
- MELISSA GUARIGLIA (DIRECTOR OF INFRAS): $129,443 total reported compensation
- CAROLINA BALLADARES (DIRECTOR OF PROG.): $120,284 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Family Connections is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 that strengthens families and builds resilient communities in San Mateo County. The organization provides evidence-based, family-centered programs that support parents and caregivers of young children, from pregnancy through early childhood. Core services include early learning education, home visiting programs, parenting education, family resource coordination, and mental health services. Programs are designed to reduce family stress, prevent child abuse and neglect, and improve outcomes related to child health, school readiness, and family stability.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family Connections empowers under-served families in San Mateo County with children from birth and beyond by providing free, high quality early learning programs linked with wrap-around services that propel our families and our whole community forward. During the reporting year, Family Connections served 917 families across San Mateo County, with a majority of participants identifying as low-income and/or from historically marginalized communities. The organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and operates in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
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 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: 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: -11.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.