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FAMILY COMPASS

FAMILY COMPASS (Texas) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,164,140 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($2,814,727). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
79
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
$734k
51/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Family Compass does

Mission

To build healthy families and a strong north texas community by preventing child abuse and neglect.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We accomplish our mission through our two long-term Home Mentoring programs and our Community Education and Outreach program for families that have elevated risk for child abuse that reside throughout Dallas, Collin and Denton County. We provide free programs that provide guidance on building positive parent-child relationships and promote optimal early development, learning, and healthy children. Programs also include divorce care and co-parenting education, and child abuse awareness seminars. Family Compass is the region's key provider of comprehensive services to prevent child abuse and neglect.

    $1,706,523 spent$1,125 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,706,523.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($250k)2018 Revenue 121 ($1.8M) Expenses 101 ($1.6M) Net assets 152 ($380k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 156 ($390k)2020 Revenue 125 ($1.8M) Expenses 105 ($1.7M) Net assets 205 ($512k)2021 Revenue 146 ($2.1M) Expenses 109 ($1.8M) Net assets 349 ($873k)2022 Revenue 147 ($2.1M) Expenses 121 ($2.0M) Net assets 401 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 139 ($2.0M) Expenses 128 ($2.1M) Net assets 388 ($973k)2024 Revenue 131 ($1.9M) Expenses 134 ($2.2M) Net assets 293 ($734k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (134)Net assets (293)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $465k to $1.0M (+123%).

$319k
$442k
$465k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

103% of FAMILY COMPASS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$162k
’17
$130k
’18
$9k
’19
$123k
’20
$361k
’21
$184k
’22
−$55k
’23
−$260k
’24
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Ona Foster

CEO

Board chair

Judy Garner

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1615161615232121
Joined·+7+2+3+2+8+1+2
No longer listed·8133032
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $657k → $1.2M.

12 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FAMILY COMPASS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FAMILY COMPASS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FAMILY COMPASS.

31%
largest funder
49%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 27% · 2019 57% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

52% of FAMILY COMPASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

95% of FAMILY COMPASS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

VT
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
DE
AR
TN
NC
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAMILY COMPASS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding FAMILY COMPASS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $749k on record.

Federal$749k
grants $749kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$749k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 7%Fundraising 14%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAMILY COMPASS?
FAMILY COMPASS (Texas) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,164,140 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ($2,814,727). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAMILY COMPASS have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $9,164,140 in grants to FAMILY COMPASS, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAMILY COMPASS?
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,814,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAMILY COMPASS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 79 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing