Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TOUCHING FAMILIES INC
TOUCHING FAMILIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $759k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $504k
What Touching Families Inc does
Mission
As a nonprofit organization, the agency's mission is to enhance the lives of children, families and individuals by building opportunities through partnerships and community based support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fact since its inception, Touching Families Inc. Has served an estimated 7,580 families and 17,281 children through the allegheny county department of human services (dhs), office of children, youth, and families (ocyf). The agency is contracted to provide family and community teaming (fact) services to families residing in allegheny county who are non-active with the ocyf. Referrals for services are primarily made through ocyf or are community-based. Fact is a voluntary service that helps families develop a plan based on family strengths and needs. Fact utilizes the department of human services model of conference and teaming. These activities include the use of common assessments tools such as the family and strengths tool (fast), facilitation and support of family conferences and team meetings with the goal of developing a family plan to address the needs of the family; integrating formal and informal support systems; and supporting the use of promising and evidence-based practices as outlined by dhs.
$645,294 spent$755,690 earned by the program100% of program spendingSummer food service program the summer food service program (sfsp) was established to ensure that eligible children receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. Free meals, which meet federal nutrition guidelines, are provided to all children at approved sfsp sites. The sfsp operates primarily in the summer months from may through september, and this is based on the site's school district calendar. Touching families, inc. Believes that developing community partnerships is a core foundation for building strong and healthy individuals, children, and families. Through community partnerships, the organization was able to answer a need to be a summer food sponsor that was seen as critical in assisting to meet the nutritional needs of children over the summer across allegheny county. Since starting the summer food program initiative in 2012, touching families, inc. Has grown from serving 5,200 meals to servicing over 61,917 meals to date, and increasing community site partnerships to help meet the nutritional needs of children.
$3,194 spent$3,551 earned by the program0% of program spendingN/a
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $648,488.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $566k to $720k (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TOUCHING FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Carlene A Parkinson
President / CEO
Board chair
Janice Evans
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
TOUCHING FAMILIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOUCHING FAMILIES INC
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOUCHING FAMILIES INC?
- TOUCHING FAMILIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOUCHING FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to TOUCHING FAMILIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TOUCHING FAMILIES INC?
- TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOUCHING FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing