Vermont Family Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331194900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Williston, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8027645290
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,725,218
- Expenses
- $1,601,084
- Assets
- $1,030,952
- Liabilities
- $200,075
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACQUELINE KELLEHERUNTIL OCT 2024 (PRESIDENT/CE)
Highest reported compensation
- JACQUELINE KELLEHERUNTIL OCT 2024 (PRESIDENT/CE): $89,912 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE KESSLERAS OF JULY 2024 (INTERIM E.D.): $51,990 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all Vermont families of children with special needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Vermont family network (vfn) empowers and supports all Vermont families of children with special needs. Vfn is the federally designated family to family health information center and the parent training and information center for Vermont, as well as the state's parent to parent and family voices organization. Vfn provides support, information and training as well as leadership opportunities for families throughout Vermont. The organization provides professional development opportunities for its education, human services, and medical community partners, as well as utilizing the expertise of 31 skilled staff, many of whom are themselves parents of children with special needs. Their personal experience uniquely qualifies these staff to effectively support and inform the families who contact Vermont family network for help. Vermont family network is a hub of information, referral and assistance services located in williston, with community-based regional family support consultants in newport and rutland. Vfn strives to educate families about their rights and their resources, and to assist professionals in understanding and fully engaging families as partners in every child's success. Despite reduced resources and the challenges of the covid 19 pandemic, Vermont family network's efforts this year were strong, including: 1)statewide family support programs that served over 1300 families of children with disabilities and/or special needs through workshops and webinars(also recorded for 24/7 access on the website) 2)the puppets in education program that served over 6,850 children and 963 adults across new england.across programs, high rates of satisfaction were documented. Leveraging strong community collaborations statewide, vfn makes a measurable difference for children who have a chronic illness or disability, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.