TLC Child and Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680008634
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7078237300
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,463,733
- Expenses
- $6,045,039
- Assets
- $12,832,843
- Liabilities
- $2,567,025
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Fette MFT (Chief Executive Officer)
People named in this filing
- Troy Niday (Chair)
- Scott Prichard (Vice Chair)
- Rose Zoia (Secretary)
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
TLC Child & Family Services is a non-profit organization that annually serves over 600 children, young adults and families in Northern California. TLC provides comprehensive quality foster care and adoption services, residentially-based services, special education services, transition age youth housing and counseling.
What it reported doing in 2024
Foster Family/Adoption Agency: Foster Family Agency: The Foster Family Agency (FFA) provides treatment foster care and foster/adopt services for children between the ages of birth to eighteen. The foster children, including sibling groups, may exhibit a moderate degree of emotional and/or behavioral disturbances. The FFA's social workers in this program provide support, consultation, and adoption services to foster parents. The social worker team approach affords a wide measure of flexibility in meeting the needs of children in unique situations. Homes are located in both city and rural settings in Sonoma, Marin, Lake, Napa and Mendocino Counties. Referrals are from all regions of California.THP Program: TLC works to ensure that all foster youth and former foster youth (ages 16 - 25) have the opportunity to experience a safe, supported transition from foster care. Through the housing program, along with an academic enrichment program, counseling and community education, youth are helped to gain the skills to live independently and succeed on their own. Transitional housing programs give young adults the opportunity to learn critical life skills from trained professional staff.Adoption Services: TLC offers adoption services for children in the foster care system and from birth parents. Home studies, adoption planning, parent training seminars and support groups, and post adoption services are provided.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- 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: 6.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.