Save a Family Plan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 986004051
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Port Huron, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5196721115
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,693,881
- Expenses
- $2,393,095
- Assets
- $14,551,748
- Liabilities
- $2,007,780
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARISA THORBURN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LOIS COTE (PRESIDENT)
- JOAN ATKINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARISA THORBURN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JEROEM COLLINS (DIRECTOR)
- BERNARDINE KETELARRS (DIRECTOR)
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
Safp is committed to seeking justice by walking with the marginalized and poor of india irrespective of their caste, creed, gender or political affiliations.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides funding for sustainable grass-roots family and community based multi-sector programming including: housing, sanitation, education, income generation (entrepreneurial development), natural resource management and conservation (including drinking water systems/ water wells and rainwater harvesting, watersheds, organic farming, waste management, pollution control, renewable energy/biogas and solar energy initiatives), gender equality, health and hygiene (including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria initiatives), capacity building, good governance, human rights, child labor, disaster management and rehabilitation, and micro-credit activities for approximately 10,000 families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $188.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.08; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.