Father Flanagans Boys Home
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
Points to look into
- It reported loans to or from officers, directors or other insiders.
These come from the organization's own tax return. There may be a good explanation; ask the charity.
What it says it does
Changing the way America cares for children and families.
- Income
- $503.4 million
- Spending
- $498.4 million
- Spent on programs
- 83%
- Reserves
- 31.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 51%
- Employees
- 4,600
- Volunteers
- 57
- Highest pay
- $1.7 million, physician
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
Strong: 97 out of 100. Higher than 97% of charities in its peer group (human services, over $100m).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 31.5 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 9% of what it owns.
Living within its means
12 of 15Income exceeded spending by 1% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 9% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1583% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 29 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: 90 out of 100. Higher than 9% of charities in its peer group (human services, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2514 of 15 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
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
0 of 10Reports at least one of: diversion of assets, excess benefits, 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 (5)
- $261.3 million spent. Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) provides medical and surgical services at one hospital location and eight outpatient clinics in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area. BTNRH is recognized internationally as a leader in pediatric brain development and communication disorder research and as a referral center for children with disorders of the ear, hearing and balance, cleft lip and palate, speech, and voice, as well as related disabilities. BTNRH clinical programs served over 47,200 children and adolescents in 2024 and had a total of 191,000 patient visits. Boys Town Pediatrics, BTNRH's group of pediatric physicians, provides primary care and specialty pediatric medical services at seven clinic locations in the Omaha area. BTNRH employs or contracts with over 90 physicians in various subspecialties, including Allergy, Audiology, ENT, General Surgery, GI, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Outpatient Psychiatry, Physical Therapy, Rheumatology, and Speech Therapy. BTNRH also provides medically directed behavioral health services. These services include an 80-bed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF), which is attached to the Hospital. This PRTF is staffed with multidisciplinary medical and behavioral health staff. BTNRH also has a 16-bed Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (IPU) attached to the Hospital and PRTF Unit. This acute care program treats the highest-risk psychiatric youth patients. The IPU is staffed with physicians, nurses, social workers, a teacher, and psychiatric technicians. These two programs provided 28,000 care days. Boys Town also has a network of teleheath sites across Nebraska to serve patients in their local area. BTNRH supports a world-class research program that comprises 48 independent laboratories that focus broadly on areas of scientific inquiry related to communication and neurobehavioral disorders including brain development, and behavioral health. The research programs at BTNRH received over $17,917,000 in external research funding in 2024. (Expenses $ 31,233,282 including grants of $ 600,165)(Revenue $ 8,637,242) HOME CAMPUS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM - SEE SCHEDULE O FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
- $83.1 million spent. Nebraska and Iowa Services consists of the Family Home Program, Intervention and Assessment Services, In Home Family Services, Foster Family Services, Common Sense Parenting, Successful Futures, the Center for Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, and others. These programs directly served over 12,400 youth and families in Nebraska/Iowa with a total of 161,000 care days. Boys Town operates approximately 60 Family Style Homes on the Home Campus, which is in the incorporated Village of Boys Town, Nebraska (the Village). These homes have a total capacity of more than 350 youth. Six to eight troubled boys or girls from throughout the United States of America, with ages generally ranging from 12 to 18, live in a home with specially trained professionals called Family Teachers. The Family Teacher provides treatment planning, skill development, spiritual guidance, a family style environment, and love and care, with the help of an Assistant Family Teacher. Each home is monitored, evaluated, and advised by a Program Director and other support personnel. In 2024, these homes provided 107,727 care days. The program is also served by three Intervention and Assessment Homes located on the Home Campus. The Intervention and Assessment Homes provide short term services for youth typically in crisis for a total of 4,026 care days. In addition to its residential program, Boys Town also operates Foster Family Services program, In Home Family Services, and Community Support Services programs in Nebraska and Iowa. The Nebraska site operates a Center for Behavioral Health, which served over 4,100 youth in 2024 with behavioral problems on an outpatient basis, and is a training center for doctoral level psychologists. In schools nationwide, Boys Town education experts work with educators to implement a unique approach that we call the Boys Town Education Model. Built and refined on decades of research and experience, the Education Model provides a comprehensive approach to addressing the behavioral and social needs of students. In 2024, 10,000 teachers were trained.
- $37.3 million spent. Programs Across America, Boys Town National Hotline, Public Services - See schedule O for complete description. Boys Town National Hotline and Public Services meets the informative and public service needs of youth, parents, teachers, and youth professionals who are involved directly or indirectly with helping youth. The Boys Town National Hotline (the Hotline) at 1-800-448-3000 helps hundreds of thousands of children and families throughout all 50 states each and every year. The Hotline provides toll free phone, as well as text, email, and chat crisis service for troubled children and families. The Hotline received approximately 100,000 contacts in 2024. The Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with trained, skilled, professional operators. The Hotline is equipped to handle calls from people who speak a variety of languages. The Hotline is accredited by the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). In an effort to reach the highest number of youth in need of assistance, through a medium more frequently used by youth, the Hotline has a website called yourlifeyourvoice.org. All of Boys Town's websites provide a wide array of content to provide parents and youth with information to help with their issues and problems. In 2024, the website had over 3,700,000 active users. The Hotline is the 988 Lifeline provider for the State of Nebraska. In addition to operating the Hotline, Boys Town also operates the Nebraska Family Helpline (the Helpline). The Helpline was conceived when Nebraska lawmakers realized families experiencing crisis needed a central, knowledgeable place to go to get help or answers to their behavioral health needs. The Helpline counselors assist families in managing immediate crisis situations, make referrals, help them navigate government systems, and follow up with families to ensure they received the help they needed. The Hotline also operates the Safe 2 Help school tipline for the State of Nebraska currently covering 60% of all students in the state. The Helpline has been honored in the press and by the Nebraska legislature for its effective service to Nebraska families. Programs across America directly served over 19,100 at seven active affiliated sites nationwide in 2024. These affiliated sites are Boys Town Central Florida, Inc., Boys Town Louisiana, Inc., Boys Town Nevada, Inc., Boys Town New England, Inc., Boys Town North Florida, Inc., Boys Town South Florida, Inc., and Boys Town Washington, DC Inc. Programs offered throughout the nation include Intervention and Assessment Services, Family Home Program, Foster Family Services, In-Home Family Services, LIFT Together with Boys Town, Common Sense Parenting, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services, Care Coordination, and others. Boys Town Youth Care programs are certified by the Council on Accreditation (COA) across all sites. Boys Town invests and emphasizes quality through staff training, evaluation, and outcomes research by having departments committed to the quality of Boys Town's programs. The Youth Care Program Quality Department provides technical training, program monitoring, consultation, evaluation and quality control/quality assurance of Boys Town's nationwide system of services. Boys Town is certified by COA and the Teaching Family Association. (Expenses $ 31,233,282 including grants of $ 600,165)(Revenue $ 8,637,242) HOME CAMPUS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM - SEE SCHEDULE O FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
- $31.2 million spent. HOME CAMPUS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM - SEE SCHEDULE O FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
- The Home Campus Educational Program operates within the Boys Town Education Center. The Village schools serve residential youth at Boys Town and provide academic and vocational training skills necessary for contemporary society. All Boys Town's schools are fully accredited by the state of Nebraska and the North Central Association. A full range of special education services are provided to all youth who require this type of assistance. The Boys Town Day School in the Village and the Duncan Day School in Duncan, Nebraska serve youth who cannot receive education services in a public or alternative school setting due to behavioral problems and/or academic deficiencies. These schools have also served parentally placed private youth and court placed youth. Boys Town served 180 students in day school services in 2024.
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? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 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 January 1922.
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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