Shineforth

Legal name: United Methodist Family Services of Virginia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
540505969
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Farmville, VA, US
Phone
866-252-7772
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Group Homes
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,291,627
Expenses
$23,476,480
Assets
$74,990,012
Liabilities
$13,947,769

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nancy Toscano PHD (President and CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Nancy Toscano PHD (President and CEO): $439,335 total reported compensation
  • Matt Lisagor (Chief Operating Officer): $223,322 total reported compensation
  • Adalay Wilson (Chief Programs Officer): $174,336 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Shineforth’s services provide children, teens, and families with personalized paths toward healing, growth, and stability.

What it reported doing in 2024

UMFS PROVIDES A RANGE OF ADOPTION SERVICES. Adoptive parents take on an incredible journey-one filled with love, resilience, and challenges. Children and teens who have experienced foster care, private, or international adoption often carry deep emotions that require patience, understanding, and expert support. That's where UMFS steps in. Our adoption social workers, therapists, and adoptive parent liaisons empower families with the skills and resources needed to foster trust and stability. Our extensive expertise in foster care and adoption connects families with the right people, programs, and tools for success and we offer 24/7 crisis support. In 2025 Shineforth's adoption services reported 47 finalizations through collaborative programs and provided 273 families with post-adoption services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 69% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 28th 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: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 7.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $18.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $439K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 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: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.