Family Guidance, Inc. 
Summary
Family Guidance, Inc. (originally founded as Youth Guidance, Inc.) is a community-based Christian organization that has been committed to helping children and families since 1964.
The ministry's programs focus on the needs of youth and families today. At risk families, a rapidly growing segment of the population, have special needs. They require special programs that build confidence, help them to develop positive relationships, and instill values that will help them make good decisions. Family Guidance strengthens families and offers hope and a future to at-risk youth through marriage enrichment, empowering churches to minister to families and children, and offering mentoring and summer camp. Family Guidance is a tax exempt nonprofit, and is eligible for tax-deductible donations. Family Guidance is also a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Contact information
Mailing address:
913 Western Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
Website: www.familyguidance.net
Phone: (412) 741-8550
Email: Info@familyguidance.net
Organization details
EIN: 251128116
CEO/President: Mr. Bob Jamison
Chairman: Mr. Kenneth Fraser
Board size: 15
Founder: Mr. Jim Leckie
Year founded: 1964
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 12/31
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 1980
Purpose
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Family Guidance, Inc. (originally founded as Youth Guidance, Inc.) is a community-based Christian organization that has been committed to helping children and families since 1964.
- match children from predominately single-parent families with Christian adults, who through the love of Jesus Christ and the application of His teachings, provide friendship, stability, and commitment in order to help children reach their God-give potential.
- offer mature guidance and role modeling as children make decisions that will steer the remainder of their lives.
- impart life skills and relationship-building skills that help prepare our kids to function positively as citizens in society
The ministry's programs focus on the needs of youth and families today:
The One-to-One Program, Pittsburgh's oldest youth mentoring program, is a vital force that is reclaiming young lives. Family Guidance mentors:
Family Guidance's Summer Camp Program at Promise Camp is designed to serve at-risk youth from western Pennsylvania. The Camp program offers these children an intensive, transformational experience in a safe, natural setting. This is accomplished through meeting the needs of the whole-person in a relational caring style. Most of the children who attend the summer camp come from the Family Guidance One-to-One (mentoring) Program and various other partnerships that serve vulnerable youth in the region.
The camp strives to keep a close counselor to camper ratio, which assures our children plenty of individualized attention. Family Guidance's overall goal is to help meet the social, mental, physical, and spiritual needs of these children from distressed families. The overarching goal of the camp is to introduce these kids to Jesus Christ. Activities at camp stress relational skills, team-building, and self-confidence.
Mission statement
Family Guidance, Inc. uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:
Family Guidance, Inc. wholeheartedly strives to bring hope and a future through Jesus Christ to vulnerable children and families of all cultures throughout the Pittsburgh region.
Statement of faith
Family Guidance, Inc uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the written record of His supernatural revelation of Himself to man, absolute in its authority, complete in its revelation, final in its content and without any errors in its teaching as originally given.
All men in their natural state are lost, alienated from God, spiritually dead: "All have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)
Salvation is by grace, a free gift of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, who died for our sins according to the Scriptures (I Corinthians 15:3). Those who thus receive Christ by faith have their sins forgiven (Ephesians 1:7), their hearts cleansed (Acts 15:9), are born of the Spirit, become children of God (John 1:12-13), and are made new creatures in Christ (II Corinthians 5:17).
God is one God, who reveals Himself in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ, as the Scriptures affirm, is the Son of God and Son of man, was born of a virgin, and is Himself very God. The Scriptures also declare the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christrose from the dead in the same body that was laid to rest in the tomb (John 20: 25-27); He ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will personally (Acts 1:11, I Thessalonians 4:16) bodily and visibly (Matthew 26:64, Revelation 1:7) return to earth in power and glory.
Christians, born of the Spirit, are to live the new life in the present power of the Spirit. "If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk." (Galatians 5:16-25, Colossians 2:6). The Christian's responsibility and his normal attitude of life is to yield himself to God (Romans 6:13), trusting God to keep him.
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Jesus Christ.
Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Community Development
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 462 of 470 | 20 of 21 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 449 of 470 | 21 of 21 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 358 of 470 | 12 of 21 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 447 of 470 | 20 of 21 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 7% | 22% | 32% | 24% | 10% | 12% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 6% | 20% | 29% | 13% | 9% | 12% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 95% | 91% | 90% | 55% | 92% | 96% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 6% | 15% | 19% | 19% | 8% | 11% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 5% | 9% | 10% | 45% | 8% | 4% |
| Operating ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 82% | 77% | 72% | 67% | 79% | 78% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 98% | 132% | 148% | 72% | 115% | 109% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 81% | 102% | 107% | 48% | 90% | 85% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 2% | -32% | -48% | 28% | -15% | -9% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | -7% | -8% | 9% | -6% | -4% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 11% | 7% | 9% | 15% | 14% | 11% |
| Investing ratios | Median measure for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.19 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.21 | 0.44 | 0.46 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.54 | 8.48 | 6.40 | 4.61 | 7.25 | 2.48 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.33 | 2.46 | 1.53 | 0.96 | 3.18 | 1.13 |
| Liquidity ratios | Median measure for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 8.72 | 5.24 | 21.23 | 13.62 | 1.93 | 3.26 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.52 | 0.31 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 4.32 | 3.95 | 7.47 | 11.58 | 1.82 | 7.36 |
| Solvency ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 10% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 7% | 12% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 3% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 70% | 337% | 401% | 458% | 212% | 192% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Cash | $315,550 | $571,061 | $743,226 | $180,977 | $1,675,461 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $51,838 | $18,174 | $145,526 | $282,858 | $126,207 |
| Short-term investments | $124,810 | $123,475 | $187,118 | $178,169 | $306,661 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $492,198 | $712,710 | $1,075,870 | $642,004 | $2,108,329 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $3,680,630 | $3,847,286 | $3,883,958 | $4,012,877 | $3,120,349 |
| Other long-term assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $3,680,630 | $3,847,286 | $3,883,958 | $4,012,877 | $3,120,349 |
| Total assets | $4,172,828 | $4,559,996 | $4,959,828 | $4,654,881 | $5,228,678 |
| Liabilities | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $75,970 | $28,482 | $53,550 | $291,800 | $586,313 |
| Other current liabilities | $17,919 | $5,090 | $25,451 | $40,722 | $61,083 |
| Total current liabilities | $93,889 | $33,572 | $79,001 | $332,522 | $647,396 |
| Debt | $0 | $150,385 | $149,615 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $0 | $150,385 | $149,615 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $93,889 | $183,957 | $228,616 | $332,522 | $647,396 |
| Net assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Unrestricted | $3,928,939 | $4,165,295 | $4,411,539 | $4,117,221 | $3,651,644 |
| Temporarily restricted | $50,000 | $110,744 | $219,673 | $25,138 | $680,446 |
| Permanently restricted | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $180,000 | $249,192 |
| Net assets | $4,078,939 | $4,376,039 | $4,731,212 | $4,322,359 | $4,581,282 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Total contributions | $833,619 | $661,237 | $793,364 | $1,641,264 | $2,097,574 |
| Program service revenue | $39,246 | $32,830 | $24,684 | $22,555 | $33,445 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $8,234 | $22,057 | $11,392 | $891 | $17,686 |
| Other revenue | $33,316 | $19,249 | $612,288 | $118,587 | $34,104 |
| Total other revenue | $80,796 | $74,136 | $648,364 | $142,033 | $85,235 |
| Total revenue | $914,415 | $735,373 | $1,441,728 | $1,783,297 | $2,182,809 |
| Expenses | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Program services | $936,647 | $786,668 | $690,302 | $1,605,128 | $1,859,184 |
| Management and general | $89,245 | $93,378 | $151,397 | $276,773 | $265,744 |
| Fundraising | $185,623 | $210,500 | $191,176 | $160,319 | $255,686 |
| Total expenses | $1,211,515 | $1,090,546 | $1,032,875 | $2,042,220 | $2,380,614 |
| Change in net assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($297,100) | ($355,173) | $408,853 | ($258,923) | ($197,805) |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($297,100) | ($355,173) | $408,853 | ($258,923) | ($197,805) |
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History
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Needs
Volunteers are the core of our programs! If you would like to share with a child the love, guidance, and sense of purpose that comes from knowing Jesus, call us at 412-741-8550, and speak with Joanne Galinowski, Director of Volunteer Resources about volunteer opportunities. You can also write Joanne at: jgalinowski@familyguidance.net