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← CHILD WELFARE INNOVATION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by CHILD WELFARE INNOVATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,463,838
Total expenses
$3,941,437
Contributions and grants received
$3,278,066
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$208,438
Investment income
$2,500
Other revenue
-$25,166
Total assets, end of year
$4,176,852
Total liabilities, end of year
$120,389
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$4,056,463
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,508,922
Management and general expenses
$1,131,776
Fundraising expenses
$300,739
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,508,922

Program services were 63.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $540,692

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,737,374

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $9,108

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Government Contracts

    total $208,438 · related or exempt $208,438

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $2,500 · excluded $2,500

  • 11a · Other revenue: Pledge Discount

    total -$25,166 · excluded -$25,166

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    -$25,166

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $220,138 · program services $60,749 · management and general $118,891 · fundraising $40,498

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,689,804 · program services $1,379,644 · management and general $173,300 · fundraising $136,860

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $69,394 · program services $56,041 · management and general $8,071 · fundraising $5,282

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $191,273 · program services $152,887 · management and general $21,920 · fundraising $16,466

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $148,983 · program services $113,204 · management and general $22,113 · fundraising $13,666

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $9,426 · program services $1,391 · management and general $6,934 · fundraising $1,101

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $122,667 · management and general $122,667

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,097,875 · program services $447,257 · management and general $574,975 · fundraising $75,643

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $59,232 · program services $33,899 · management and general $22,969 · fundraising $2,364

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $30,610 · program services $17,518 · management and general $11,870 · fundraising $1,222

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,950 · program services $1,116 · management and general $756 · fundraising $78

  • 17 · Travel

    total $170,879 · program services $146,398 · management and general $18,868 · fundraising $5,613

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $60,342 · program services $43,276 · management and general $16,363 · fundraising $703

  • 20 · Interest

    total $7,392 · program services $4,230 · management and general $2,867 · fundraising $295

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $13,672 · program services $7,824 · management and general $5,302 · fundraising $546

  • 24a · Other expenses: Other Misc. Expenses

    total $47,800 · program services $43,488 · management and general $3,910 · fundraising $402

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,757,225 · end of year $1,588,150

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,411,949 · end of year $1,403,723

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $937,408 · end of year $1,070,850

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $94,728 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $10,241 · end of year $14,791

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $140,620 · end of year $99,338

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $243,527 · end of year $120,389

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $533,300 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,663,705 · end of year $2,769,532

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,911,639 · end of year $1,286,931

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Foster America aims to improve the lives of America's most vulenerable children; those in foster care or at risk of entering the system. We are developing a pipeline a leaders and innovators and building a movement to transform the child welfare system.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Developing a pipeline of leaders and innovators and building a movement to transform the child welfare system.

  • We supported ten fellows in Cohort 4, five fellows in Cohort 5, eight fellows in Cohort 6, and four Senior Fellows. When recruiting for our sixth cohort of fellows, we received 312 applications for eight positions, resulting in a selection rate of 2.5%.Our fourth cohort of fellows graduated in April 2021, and we conducted an in-depth evaluation of their fellowship experiences and impact. Several themes emerged from our evaluation effort that help to illustrate the ways in which Foster America fellows enable systems change. These themes include, in order of prevalence:1. Practices: Fellows most often changed or developed new practices regarding workforce development and engagement; improved services for children and families; and engagement of children, families and communities in the workplace.2. Relationships and Connections: Fellows helped to build communication channels and/or collaborative relationships between and among different government entities and with community groups and members.3. Policies: Fellows helped drive planning and implementation around Family First and facilitated data-sharing agreements.4. Resource flows: Fellows helped to secure additional financial resources and prompt different ways of allocating resources.5. Power Dynamics: Fellows helped to create structures that shift power toward children, youth and families, in ways that either amplify these perspectives in informing the work or, less often, give them decision-making power.6. Mental models: Fellows helped shed light on areas often overlooked by agencies (e.g. how language is used, more upstream thinking about prevention).In late 2021, we launched a strategic planning effort to gather learnings from the community, from stakeholders and lived experts, and from the field more broadly in order to map the most pressing issues that the child welfare system faces today and identify our place of impact within it.

    Expenses $2,508,922 · Revenue $208,438

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Susan Notkin

    Chair, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Treadway

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lola Adedokun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jolie Bales

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandra Gasca-Gonzales

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allegra Lawrence-Hardy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Sanders

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jermeen Sherman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Stephens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rafael Lopez

    Past Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marie Zemler Wu

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $161,996
    From this org
    $145,021
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,975
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,021
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,725
    Filer's total
    $161,996

  • Michael Russom

    VP of Finance and Operations

    Total calculated
    $23,203
    From this org
    $19,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,393
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anjelica Hardin Hall

    VP of Talent

    Total calculated
    $34,939
    From this org
    $32,633
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,306
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rosalie Schachter

    Director of Dev. & Communications

    Total calculated
    $141,515
    From this org
    $105,613
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,902
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shannon L Scott

    Director of Learning & Leadership

    Total calculated
    $136,454
    From this org
    $120,826
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,628
    Hours/week
    40

  • Julian Johnson

    Senior Fellow

    Total calculated
    $125,947
    From this org
    $119,649
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,298
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mathangi Swaminathan

    Senior Fellow

    Total calculated
    $125,167
    From this org
    $110,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,075
    Hours/week
    40

  • Madel Leal

    TFSC Senior Project Manager

    Total calculated
    $119,985
    From this org
    $103,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,435
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 7
During 2022 Anjelica Hardin Hall received a $1,750 signing bonus from the Organization. The bonus was approved by the Executive Director.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
14 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202333199349310993

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