Whitington Home & Services for Children and Families Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
310884478
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Phone
2607459431
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Care & Adult Day Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$865,583
Expenses
$1,073,751
Assets
$1,451,184
Liabilities
$56,815

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRIS BECK (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BETH GULINO (EXECUTIVE DI): $158,615 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mission: to develop independent life skills that lead to self-sufficient families. Vision: all children, youth and families are independent, self- sufficient and contributing members of society.

What it reported doing in 2025

Whitington provides a wide array of home-based services to families and children in our community. These services include the following: tutoring/literacy classes which allow individuals to achieve the education and success tools needed to become successful independent members of society. Clients receiving this service receive one on one and/or small group support in all academic areas by a highly qualified trained individual. Parent education is a strength based service that identifies areas of need and focuses on short and long term goals to reduce safety risks for children. Whitington practitioners safely maintain children in their homes, preserve, support, stabilize and promote the well-being of families. They also help facilitate reunification of children back home. Visit supervision-traditional services provides a neutral party to mediate visit times, locations, conditions, transportation for children to and from the visit site, supervised visitation by a trained paraprofessional, teaching and modeling of parenting skills and child development expectations as requestd by dcs/po. Casework services provided include, but are not limited to parenting education, money management, child development education, community referrals, and behavior modification. Supervised visitation is also provided to clients and their children, both in and out of the home. Therapeutic services are provided by trained staff and utilize evidence based procedures such as dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive hehavioral therapy, trauma focused cognitive hehavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, motivational interviewing and play therapy. Whitington practitioners are available to their families 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Truancy termination program allows whitington to address delinquency issues the right way through preventative and restorative measures. The juvenile probation department has targeted truancy as one of the primary indicators that youth are at risk or are participating in risk taking behavior. Whitington home and services has chosen this model to implement for individuals out of a desire and mission to create opportunity for change for individuals, families and communities. During 2025, 8,733 hours of home-based family centered case management and therapy were provided to 495 clients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -24%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $791K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.