Turning Points for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 215.875.8200
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,448,862
- Expenses
- $25,228,320
- Assets
- $38,790,430
- Liabilities
- $12,146,026
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID FAIR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAMES W ORAM JR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- Seth Jones (SR. Dir of Finance PAST): $196,819 total reported compensation
- DAVID FAIR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $184,230 total reported compensation
- Cydney Irving-Dasent (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $169,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Turning Points for Children strengthens families and builds brighter futures for children in Philadelphia through a comprehensive network of family support services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Yv lifeset: yv lifeset program provides transition services to young adults ages 17-22, who have aged out of the foster care, juvenile justice and mental health systems, or who would otherwise find themselves without the skills and resources to live successfully at this critical junction in their young lives. The program model provides a proven level of intense case management in that the yvlifeset specialists are available to the young adults 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They make a minimum of one face-to-face contact per week with the youth at the youth's home, job or wherever is most convenient. The number of sessions is increased as needed to match the individual needs of each young adult. The yvlifeset program integrates both clinical and case management components to help ensure young people are engaged in the program and establish permanency, education, employment, housing and basic independent living skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -36.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $19.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $197K · 14 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 23 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.