Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
See separate instructions.| (i) Name of supported organization |
(ii) EIN |
(iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 9 above or IRC section (see instructions)) |
(iv) Is the organization in col. (i) listed in your governing document? |
(v) Did you notify the organization in col. (i) of your support? |
(vi) Is the organization in col. (i) organized in the U.S.? |
(vii) Amount of support? |
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| Calendar year(or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2007 | (b) 2008 | (c) 2009 | (d) 2010 | (e) 2011 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") .... | 10,218,550 | 10,552,971 | 11,215,192 | 13,426,318 | 12,551,084 | 57,964,115 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf....... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3.. | 10,218,550 | 10,552,971 | 11,215,192 | 13,426,318 | 12,551,084 | 57,964,115 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 0 | |||||
| 6 | Public Support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 57,964,115 | |||||
| Calendar year(or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2007 | (b) 2008 | (c) 2009 | (d) 2010 | (e) 2011 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 10,218,550 | 10,552,971 | 11,215,192 | 13,426,318 | 12,551,084 | 57,964,115 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | 120,929 | 87,028 | 71,360 | 65,889 | 85,955 | 431,161 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. (Explain in Part IV.) Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets.. | 22,386 | 3,976 | 14,244 | 11,879 | 4,988 | 57,473 |
| 11 | Total support (Add lines 7 through 10). | 58,452,749 | |||||






| Calendar year(or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2007 | (b) 2008 | (c) 2009 | (d) 2010 | (e) 2011 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose...... | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513.. | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5. | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons... | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public Support (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
| Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2007 | (b) 2008 | (c) 2009 | (d) 2010 | (e) 2011 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part IV.) | ||||||
| 13 | Total support (Add lines 9, 10c, 11 and 12.). | ||||||




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| PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS | FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4A | Marriage Enrichment, Counseling, Family Nutrition, Children's Services (Including Head Start) Counseling Services and Support: In 2011, more than 2,000 people accessed expert clinical mental health services through our Family Centers and another 900 through Head Start and other early education sites. The Family Conservancy offers education and intervention for individuals, couples, families and groups. In addition to counseling for grief, loss, depression, parent-child conflicts, career changes, and substance abuse education and prevention, for example, services also include: Survivors of Domestic Violence Group; Domestic Violence Offender groups conducted in English; Anger Management group; play therapy for children; case management; and parenting education classes. Head Start/Early Head Start: The Family Conservancy is a delegate agency to the Jackson, Platte and Clay county Head Start contract held by Mid America Regional Council and we administer programming for 792 Head Start children. In 2011, The Family Conservancy delivered quality improvement services to over a hundred child care sites improving the quality of early learning provided to thousands of metro children. We partner with 10 centers, 21 family providers and have 108 home-based slots available. In addition to general oversight, The Family Conservancy provides nutrition education, literacy tools and mental health consultation to its Head Start providers. Early Solutions: Through comprehensive mental health intervention, the Early Solutions program helps young, at-risk children maintain appropriate early education placement. Early Solutions largely works with Head Start child care sites, allowing the program to reach low-income children and families. Intended objectives of the Early Solutions Program are: identified at-risk children, ages 0-5, will decrease problem behavior; and appropriately placed children will decrease classroom problem behavior and maintain placement. During 2011, the Early Solutions program reached 34 individual children experiencing difficulty, 1,167 of their pre-k classmates and 160 early education staff. According to assessments, children who received evaluation or consultation services overwhelmingly decreased problem behavior and were able to maintain their early education placement. In addition, in 2011, the Early Solutions Program, provided 39 trainings across the Metro to reach 336 early childhood providers with evidence based social-emotional and mental health education. As the Early Solutions Program has grown, staff have built relationships with early childhood providers in the community; this has led to providers being more receptive to regular mental health consultations and training. This prevention approach has reduced the number of crisis calls for behavior concerns. Child Care Resource and Referral: In 2011, Child Care Resource and Referral provided 201 hours of training on topics such as Infants and Toddlers, and Working with Special Needs Children; and 526.5 hours of Technical Assistance on-site with providers. More than 4,775 families from Kansas contacted The Family Conservancy in 2011 seeking assistance in finding appropriate care for their children. Our early education experts guide families in identifying their needs and desires, locating potential care options, and assessing the quality of care before making a choice. In addition to supporting working families, research shows that quality early education promotes the social, emotional and intellectual development of children. In addition to referrals, families may receive information about child development "ages and stages," brain development, and parenting techniques. Families contact our Child Care Aware resource and referral service by phone between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., or anytime at www.childcaresource.org or www.thefamilyconservancy.org Early Education Quality Initiatives: We provide leadership in community-wide efforts to assure all children have access to quality early education. When we launched the Child Care Accreditation Facilitation Project in 1997, only 17 of the 500 area programs were nationally accredited. Today, more than 180 early education programs in the Kansas City community are nationally accredited. These accredited programs benefit more than 21,000 children in the bi-state area. We continue to deliver on-site technical assistance and a variety of professional development opportunities for early education professionals. The Family Conservancy is also a partner in the evolving Quality Rating System, which incorporates national accreditation into a tiered star rating system for child care programs. The Quality Rating System (QRS) helps to target resources to specific program components in need of attention while at the same time encouraging continuous quality improvement by recognizing incremental gains. As with the Accreditation Project, we provide on-site technical assistance, professional education and coaching for child care professionals engaged in quality improvement. We worked with 345 Early Education Programs in 2011 through a variety of quality initiatives. These quality improvement efforts had a direct impact on the lives of 15,800 children in the metropolitan area. Our annual Early Education Professional Development Symposium was held in October and offered quality training to professionals from throughout the metropolitan area. Approximately 200 directors and providers attended the symposium in Wyandotte County. In addition, we served 944 children in the kindergarten transition pilot program within specific preschools in the USD 500 school district. Crossroads to Early Language and Literacy (C.E.L.L.): The Family Conservancy in partnership with Kansas City, Kansas School District (USD 500), serves at-risk preschool children through the Crossroads for Early Language and Literacy Program (C.E.L.L.). C.E.L.L. is an educational program serving families in Wyandotte County Kansas facing challenges of poverty, unemployment and health disparities. Currently, the Family Service Workers of the C.E.L.L. Program serve 150 children in 8 at-risk preschool classrooms to promote kindergarten readiness. The C.E.L.L. Program's focus is one of mentoring professional development, enriching the preschool classroom and supporting the home environment. The Family Service Worker component enhances home learning experiences, promotes kindergarten readiness and engages parents for a positive transition into elementary school. Additionally, C.E.L.L. Program staff work with child care providers to implement social-emotional curriculum, also known as Second Steps, in the classroom. The Second Steps program for early learning is a universal, classroom-based program designed to increase children's school readiness and social success by building social-emotional competence and self-regulation skills. Family Service Workers of the C.E.L.L program introduce social-emotional education in the classroom through weekly circle time activities that incorporate music, puppets, games and much more to teach lessons on how to handle sadness and anger towards others. |
| PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS | FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4B | Child and Adult Care Food Program: Nutrition can play an important role in a child's success. The Child and Adult Care Food Program offers child care providers and the families they serve, education and support, so that nutritious meals are provided in a child care setting. This teaches children good eating habits that will last a lifetime. Food Program staff work with the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) to assist participating program in receiving reimbursements for the approved meals that they serve. CACFP at The Family Conservancy approves child care providers' menus and distributes monthly menu options from the USDA. In 2011, The CACFP served over 2,800 children and 315 child care providers. |
| PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS | FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4C | Student Assistance, Family Asset Building, Ways to Work Student Assistance: In 2011, our Student Assistance Program enrolled 35 students from 16 high schools for case management and small stipends to help at-risk teens earn their high school diplomas. These students are unable to live with and typically receive no support from their parents due to neglect, abuse, parental incarceration, or substance abuse. They must maintain a C average and regular school attendance to participate, and either work or be active in extracurricular school activities. Mental Health counseling is offered to each participant at no cost. Family Asset Building: The Family Asset Building (FAB) program is the cornerstone of The Family Conservancy's anti-poverty initiatives. FAB is an Individual Development Account program providing financial education and matched savings for low and moderate income families who save for home ownership, business capitalization, or higher education and training. As a part of Family Asset Building, our Ways to Work program provides loans to families needing to purchase a vehicle in order to stay on the job or in school. These innovative strategies focus on helping families acquire appreciable assets that will help them achieve greater economic stability and brighter futures. Overall, the program encourages participants to purchase a first home, obtain a college degree, or start a small business to lift them on the economic ladder. Since 1997, the program has helped 1,274 Individual Development Account (IDA) holders save over $1.5 million including matching funds. In 2011, participants repaired 13 homes. In addition, participants have completed over 720 hours of financial education classes. Recruitment continues for the program. |
| OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES | FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4D | Family Empowerment and Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids Family Empowerment: The Family Empowerment program was developed by The Family Conservancy on-site at the Chouteau Courts public housing development, in Kansas City, MO, over twenty years ago to address issues with high-risk families. The overall goal of the Family Empowerment Program has been to conduct activities that prevent and reduce the rate of child abuse and substance abuse, while increasing residents' physical and social health and resiliency in the Chouteau Courts housing development. Currently, we conduct intensive, evidence based Survival Skills for Women and Survival Skills for Youth training series on-site for residents and their children. We also provide after-school activities for youth, nutrition classes for parents when possible and life skills assistance as needed for adult residents. Approximately 80 youth and 70 adults are served annually by the program. The average annual household income for participants is $4,221. Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids: The Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids program provides weekly parenting education and family support on-site at Juniper Gardens public housing development in Kansas City, KS. Program activities focus on helping parents learn how to manage their own health and stress, learn appropriate parenting strategies, form connections with other families with young children, and gain trusted resources for information and services. Approximately 50-70 participants are served annually through weekly group sessions covering a variety of healthy lifestyles issues. These sessions include information about nutrition and exercise for parents and other adult family members. Beginning in 2009, the Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids Program added a prenatal and infant care education component (Child of Mine). The Child of Mine programming, conducted in partnership with the Unified Government Health Department, provides weekly classes covering such topics as the need for prenatal care, the availability of prenatal and childhood health care services, nutrition and exercise during pregnancy, the harmfulness of tobacco and substance abuse during pregnancy, family planning, domestic violence and infant care and safety. |
| FORM 990 REVIEW PROCESS | FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B | AN INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM PREPARES AND REVIEWS THE 990. THE 990 IS THEN REVIEWED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S OFFICERS AND ACCOUNTING PERSONNEL. ANY QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS THE ORGANIZATION'S OFFICERS AND ACCOUNTING PERSONNEL HAVE ARE ADDRESSED AND ANY CORRECTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE ARE MADE. THE 990 IS THEN PROVIDED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD FOR THEIR REVIEW PRIOR TO FILING THE 990. ANY QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAVE ARE ADDRESSED AND ANY CONCERNS OR CLARIFICATIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE ARE MADE. THE FINAL FORM 990 WITH ALL REQUIRED SCHEDULES IS THEN PROVIDED TO ALL VOTING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD PRIOR TO FILING THE 990. |
| CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY | FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C | THE ORGANIZATION'S POLICY IS THAT MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ADVISORY BOARD, KEY EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, AND/OR ANY COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SHALL HAVE NO DIRECT OR INDIRECT FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THE ASSETS, CONTRACTS, OR LEASES OF THE AGENCY. BUSINESS DECISIONS MUST ENSURE THAT CONTRACTS AND PROFESSIONAL ARRANGEMENTS SERVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE AGENCY AND OUR CONSUMERS, NOT PRIVATE INTERESTS. ANY MEMBER IN A POSITION TO INFLUENCE AGENCY BUSINESS DECISIONS, FOR WHICH THEY OR THEIR BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL FIRM, MAY RECEIVE MATERIAL BENEFIT, MUST DISCLOSE THE NATURE OF THE CONFLICT TO THE BOARD CHAIR. MEMBERS WITH POTENTIAL CONFLICTS MUST REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM INVOLVEMENT IN SUCH DISCUSSION, DECISION MAKING AND VOTING. |
| COMPENSATION REVIEW | FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINES 15A & 15B | AN INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION REVIEW WAS COMPLETED FOR THE CEO, OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION IN 2010 BY FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES AND CLARK LAMENDOLA CONSULTING. FOR THIS REVIEW, THEY USED A COMPENSATION SURVEY OR STUDY AND FORM 990 OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO GET A BENCHMARK FOR THE COMPENSATION. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS USES THE INFORMATION FROM THE INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION REVIEW TO APPORVE THE COMPENSATION FOR THE CEO, OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES. THE DELIBERATIONS AND DECISIONS REGARDING COMPENSATION IS CONTEMPORANEOUSLY DOCUMENTED. |
| AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS | FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 | THE GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. |
| CHANGE IN NET FUND BALANCES | FORM 990, PART XI, LINE 5 | UNREALIZED LOSSES ON INVESTMENTS ($ 130,735) CHANGE IN DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLAN ($ 1,146,462) ------------ TOTAL ($ 1,277,197) |
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