Tabor Children's Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232148612
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jenkintown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2153484071
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,356,073
- Expenses
- $14,497,208
- Assets
- $5,960,847
- Liabilities
- $1,498,067
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN COLEMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS W GRANT (TRUSTEE): $759,755 total reported compensation
- Dawn Diamond (TRUSTEE): $585,548 total reported compensation
- KAREN COLEMAN (PRESIDENT): $232,740 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through a wide range of child welfare services, our mission is to keep children & youth safe, strengthen families & promote the independence of youth & families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Foster care: general foster care provides temporary families for children found by the courts to be at imminent risk of harm and placed in the child welfare system. The foster parents are certified and trained by the organization to meet the children's many special needs. Its social workers and foster parents are a team that nurture the child in foster care and provide support for the birth family's efforts to achieve the child's return home. Social work efforts focus on the concerns that brought the child into placement, and permanency is achieved through family reunification, supported permanent legal custodianship, or adoption. Medical foster care serves children with special medical or physically disabling conditions who require extensive specialized medical, physical and developmental care. Trained social workers coordinate the efforts of medical personnel, foster parents and birth families to secure services necessary to improve the health and functioning of the child. Treatment foster care offers specialized support for children experiencing difficulties with the emotional impact of early deprivation, abuse, or separation and loss. Foster parents receive special training in advocacy, behavior modification and care for children with mental health diagnoses. Social workers provide intensive support to maintain the stability of the child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 58.3%; rating input score 58; 10th 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: 5.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $12.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $760K · 14 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.