Raise A Child Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453665296
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133420100
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $830,146
- Expenses
- $932,620
- Assets
- $281,829
- Liabilities
- $31,361
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARGARET BOLHMAN (Director)
- JONATHAN FITZGARRALD (Director)
- BETH McCLUNEY (Chairman)
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 inspire and encourage caring people to nurture children in foster care.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raise a child, inc. Recruits, educates, and nurtures supportive relationships equally with all prospective foster and adoptive parents while partnering with agencies to improve the process of advancing children in the foster system to safe, loving, and permanent homes. The 501(c)(3) organizations mission is building loving families for children in the foster system. Raise a childs vision is to be the nationwide leader in the recruitment and support of lgbtq and all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adopting to meet the needs of the over 437,000 children in the foster care system. As of this date, raiseachild is serving a database of over 23,000 current and prospective foster and adoptive individuals and families.raise a childs activities include findingand then supportingpeople who are interested in becoming foster/adoptive parents. As a result, raiseachild advances foster and adoptive parents from inquiry to finish training at a rate that is four times greater than the national average. Raise a child works with its partner agencies to design, produce and manage multimedia advertising and outreach campaigns through social media, radio, television, and outdoor advertising that promotes family building to a broad spectrum of prospective foster and adoptive parents.
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: 88
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $758K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.