Varner Foundation for Children and Families
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844659139
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5134042446
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,238
- Expenses
- $114,125
- Assets
- $175,816
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Evangeline DeVol (Executive Director)
- Dan Varner (President)
- Rob Cooke (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Evangeline DeVol (Executive Director)
- Dan Varner (President)
- Rob Cooke (Vice President)
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
The purpose of the foundation is to raise awareness, facilitate collaboration and provide resources to improve and increase the quality of foster and kinship care, in order to restore at risk families.
What it reported doing in 2025
To raise awareness, facilitate collaboration and provide resources to improve and increase quality of foster and kinship care in order to restore at risk families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 69.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.