Charity profile · Historical source record

Cal Farley's

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

It's where you're going that counts!
Founded in 1939, Cal Farley's is one of America's largest privately-funded child welfare providers specializing in both residential and community-based services at no cost to the families of children in our care. Cal Farley's offers three types of services to children and families: residential, educational and community-based. The residential, or campus-based, programs offer children a campus environment where children live in homes or cottages at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch or Cal Farley's Girlstown, U.S.A.. Our basic-care services offer 24-hour supervision in a small community setting. The educational programs provide the children on our campuses academic, athletic and extracurricular opportunities. Our community-based services currently offer a variety of resources to children and families.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

84.04Overall score
out of 100
77.63Financial score
out of 100
97.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$37,036,192
Total expenses · USD$48,884,362

Program expenses

$34,463,475.21 recorded amount
70.5%

Fundraising expenses

$7,821,497.92 recorded amount
16.0%

Administrative expenses

$6,550,504.51 recorded amount
13.4%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.37 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Dan Adams
Recorded compensation
$265,125.00
Recorded compensation percentage
0.54%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Cal Farley's
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
97.0
category
Category
Human Services
description
Mission & description
Founded in 1939, Cal Farley's is one of America's largest privately-funded child welfare providers specializing in both residential and community-based services at no cost to the families of children in our care. Cal Farley's offers three types of services to children and families: residential, educational and community-based. The residential, or campus-based, programs offer children a campus environment where children live in homes or cottages at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch or Cal Farley's Girlstown, U.S.A.. Our basic-care services offer 24-hour supervision in a small community setting. The educational programs provide the children on our campuses academic, athletic and extracurricular opportunities. Our community-based services currently offer a variety of resources to children and families.
ein
EIN
75-0808768
tot_exp
Total expenses
48884362.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.134
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.37
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.16
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.705
fscore
Financial score
77.63
leader
Recorded leader
Dan Adams
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
265125.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0054
motto
Tagline
It's where you're going that counts!
name
Charity name
Cal Farley's
tot_rev
Total revenue
37036192.0
score
Overall score
84.04
state
State code
TX
subcategory
Subcategory
Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services
size
Source size label
big
program_exp
Program expenses
34463475.21
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
7821497.92
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
6550504.508

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.