Trinity Youth Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952480624
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Claremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9098255588
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,607,611
- Expenses
- $19,495,075
- Assets
- $14,448,645
- Liabilities
- $3,502,172
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cher Ofstedahl (COO/CEO)
- John Neiuber (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Cher Ofstedahl (COO/CEO): $346,214 total reported compensation
- Inger Walker (Chief Administrative Officer): $173,494 total reported compensation
- Gilbert Quinbar (Director of Residential Services): $131,369 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Trinity Youth Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency providing out-of-home placement services to California's children ages 0-18, who are in need of foster care, residential treatment, specialty mental/behavioral health and/or adoptive placement programs and services. Since Trinity Youth Services opened its doors in 1966, the agency has fulfilled its mission of "helping children and families create a better future" by assisting more than 65,000 trauma-affected children to heal and providing them with the knowledge, skills and tools to achieve happy, healthy, permanent relationships in "forever family" settings. Trinity's fully-licensed, nationally accredited quality programs and services are delivered in safe, caring environments by highly-trained staff.
What it reported doing in 2024
The residential treatment campuses provide comprehensive care for adolescent males placed through court and social service mandates. 24/7/365 behavior and mental health integrated programs are focused on providing youth with the knowledge, skills and tools for community reentry and permanency. The foster care program provides complete care for children placed with certified families. Trinity utilizes a highly qualified staff of masters level social workers and support staff to recruit, certify and monitor family homes and provide care management for children from placement to permanency. Adoption services are also provided.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 32 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.