Families and Work Institute
Legal name: The Families and Work Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133500642
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Palisades, NY, USA
- Phone
- 212-465-2044
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $198,485
- Expenses
- $234,605
- Assets
- $105,197
- Liabilities
- $4,629
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN GALINSKY (President)
People named in this filing
- DEBORAH DAGIT (BOARD MEMBER)
- ELLEN GALINSKY (President)
- ELLEN R MARRAM (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Research to Live, Work, and Learn By. Our very reason for being is to conduct research that leads to action. This is the mission of the FWI. We are unusual among organizations—both academic and nonprofit **organizations** —in four ways:. We are unusual among organizations—both academic and nonprofit **organizations** —in four ways: 1. 1. Whereas other organizations tend to be focused on one or a few specific topics, we take a broad, life-cycle approach, covering topics from birth through aging. 2. Whereas other organization tend to focus on individuals or on the context in which individuals live, we take an ecological approach, looking at individuals in terms of their work...
What it reported doing in 2025
Child, family and community programs - the institute's work includes a long commitment to focus on early learning and the implications of what we know about early learning for teacher and classroom quality and early childhood system design.the institute also focuses on the development of broad scale communications campaigns to share early learning research with a wide range of public and private sector audiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -47.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $210K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.