Safe Families for Children Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453194102
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7736532200
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,094,225
- Expenses
- $11,317,692
- Assets
- $8,247,028
- Liabilities
- $2,347,785
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $180,310 total reported compensation
- LAURA GALT (DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS): $129,828 total reported compensation
- ABEL ORTIZ (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT): $128,351 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create extended family-like supports for desperate families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated by faith to keep children safe and families intact.
What it reported doing in 2024
The alliance through its nationwide network of local chapters works to strengthen, support, and stabilize families through a) keeping children safe during a family crisis such as homelessness, hospitalization, or domestic violence in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect, b) supporting and stabilizing families in crisis by surrounding them with caring compassionate community, and c) reuniting families and reducing the number of children entering the child welfare system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $180K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.