Father Flanagans Boys Home
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Changing the way America cares for children and families.
- Income
- $10.3 million
- Spending
- $11.6 million
- Spent on programs
- 85%
- Reserves
- 1.2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 77%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 20
- Highest pay
- $223,746, site director - president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 34 out of 100. Higher than 4% of charities in its peer group (human services, $10m to $100m).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 1.2 months of spending.
Debt
5 of 20It owes 52% of what it owns.
Living within its means
4 of 15Spending exceeded income by 13% of income.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 29% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1584% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 12 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 95 out of 100. Higher than 29% of charities in its peer group (human services, $10m to $100m).
Independent board
25 of 258 of 9 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $7.0 million spent. Lift Together with Boys Town has been defined as a multi-component, community-based prevention intervention that uses Boys Towns family and school-based programs to generate community-wide impact. Boys Town partners with schools to provide wraparound programs such as In-Home Family Services, Care Coordination Services, Well-Managed Schools, and a School Support Specialist SSS. Well-Managed Schools WMS is a systematic school-based intervention that assists schools in creating a positive school culture by providing tools and strategies for classroom behavior management, student social skill development, and staff-student relationship-building. The School is supported in implementing WMS at their campus by receiving in-depth training, as well as quarterly class observations, school-wide data collections and one-on-one staff coaching. The SSS works to decrease negative behaviors and increase positive behaviors in the school. The SSS accomplishes this by utilizing the Boys Town WMS model as well as other behavior intervention techniques developed by Boys Town. SSS are trained to work with students, staff, and families to ensure wraparound support and consistency for Tier II/III students.
- $2.6 million spent. In-home family services is a short-term ten to twelve week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out of home placement and keep families together. A Consultant spends on average up to 3-5 hours a week in a familys home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children. The Consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient, and improve parenting techniques. The Consultant not only provides interventions in the familys own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability. Family Consultants are on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Care Coordination Services provide intensive case-management services for families in or approaching situations. Trained Consultants help families build and maintain family stability and access community resources and supports. Care Coordination Services provide a lifeline to family members by ensuring they receive the right care at the right time. In this intensive, family centered case management program,consultants help parents and caregivers link, navigate, advocate, and monitor services their family needs. In-Home Family Services is a 10-12 week in-home parenting program. Consultants help families in their homes or community. They empower parents by teaching them new parenting skills and provide support 24/7. Families learn how to address behavior issues and create a safe positive home environment. Care Coordination Services is an intensive, family-centered case management program that helps families navigate complex systems such as the mental health system, child welfare system, and the education system. It is a 3-6 month program where a Care Coordination consultant advocates for families and links parents to community resources and supports to help families become more stable in the community. Common Sense Parenting is a series of educational sessions designed to help improve parenting styles using behavior management skills. Classes are for parents of children toddlers and up. The program provides parents and other caregivers with proven techniques that can help them build good family relationships, prevent and correct misbehaviors, use consequences to improve behavior, and teach self-control.
- $246,710 spent. The Behavioral Health Clinic specializes in providing outpatient child, adolescent, and family behavioral health services Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Psychological Evaluations, and Parent Training. The clinics treatments are backed by research, and the Boys Town Behavioral Clinics located around the country have years of experience serving children and teens with emotional and behavioral problems. The clinic specializes in creating comprehensive approaches to care. The clinic mission is to resolve problems early, before they develop into more serious health and behavioral issues that impact functioning. The clinicians actively work to coordinate care with the family, the childs pediatrician, and school staff to ensure long-term success. The age range seen in the clinic is toddlers to young adults college age. Working with the childs parents, the clinicians develop treatment plans for youth who face these problems such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD, school, anxiety and worry, depression, anger management, bedtime problems and sleep disorders, compliance concerns, trauma, phobias, enuresis, encopresis, habits, and eating disorders. The Behavioral Health Clinic has expanded its services to include providing autism psychological testing evaluations. We also are a training program that trains advanced doctoral graduate students specializing in either school psychology or clinical psychology and post-doctoral fellows.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Worth knowing.
Not individually listed by the IRS as eligible, which is usual for local chapters covered by a parent organization's exemption. The master file records contributions to it as deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since July 2003.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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