TFI Family Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480806277
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Phone
- 877-942-2239
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,657,231
- Expenses
- $61,646,191
- Assets
- $47,201,972
- Liabilities
- $18,687,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL PATRICK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL PATRICK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $479,047 total reported compensation
- SHIRLEY DWYER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $287,633 total reported compensation
- MELISSA BRIGGS (CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER): $214,084 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Devoted to the strength of family. TFI is a leading child welfare agency providing experience, compassion, quality services, and care. Our strength as an organization lies in the fact that we do what is best for children and families. TFI continues to create new foster parent resources and develop innovative solutions as we work to meet the needs of families and children. We provide various services to the community, including foster and kinship care, adoption, counseling support and education, prevention services, TIPS-MAPP training and numerous other child welfare services. Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Resource foster care: while there are many different levels and types of resource care within the program, the primary focus is to work closely with each and every resource care family. Some of the services include: 24 hour on-call social worker, support meetings, free ongoing training, respite care.resource families provide an alternative home like setting for children who are not able to safely live with their parents. Resource parents undergo training and state licensure to ensure that they are knowledgble about the special challenges children who are placed with them might face, and to provide them with skills to work with the child. The child's family, the social worker or case manager, and the legal system. The family initiative, inc provides sponsorship for state licensed resource families and provides supportive services to assist them with any problems or challenges that might occur during the placement fo a child in a home. During this period there were 402 resource homes and 1214 children place in the homes that were sponsored by tfi family services, inc.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -3.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $479K · 16 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $673K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.