Transformations By Amarillo Angels Subordinate
Transformations By Amarillo Angels
EIN: 84-4230967 Subordinate
as of September 2023
as of September 18, 2023
Mission
The Amarillo Angels mission is to walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship
Ruling year
2011
Executive Director
Gwen Wilson Hicks
Main address
2200 4th Ave Ste 141
Canyon, TX 79015 USA
EIN
84-4230967
Foster care
Adult and child mentoring
Intergenerational mentoring
Adult peer mentoring
Aging out of foster care
Population served
Children and youth
Young adults
Families of origin
Families of choice
Caregivers
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Affiliations
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Love Box Program
The Love Box program provides fostering families (caregivers, children in foster care, and biological/adopted children) in the Panhandle and South Plains of Texas with community and holistic support. This wrap-around support enables caregivers to continue to do the important and meaningful work of being foster parents. As a Love Box group, you will be matched with a local foster family based on location, compatibility, and scope of needs. When our families are matched with committed volunteers who show up monthly, parents feel supported and children gain a greater sense of normalcy, relational permanency, and self confidence.
Volunteers seek to build relationships with their family by spending quality time with the whole family: playing games, sharing a meal, and being intentional. They can also create and deliver personal care packages based on current practical needs. We tell our volunteers to think of themselves as the fun “auntie” and “uncle” who visits once a month to bring love, encouragement, and hope. This program requires a one year commitment, but the connections and impact last a lifetime.
Where we work
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of foster care children placed with a family that were formally adopted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Love Box Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Seven children who were in families supported by a Love Box group were adopted in 2022
Number of care packages delivered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Love Box Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We desire to change the way children, youth and families experience the foster care system in the Panhandle and South Plains of Texas. By providing consistent and tangible, essential support through our Love Box program for families that foster, children and youth experience extended placement longevity which in turn allows time for the traumatized brains to heal. This support is vital to reduce stress levels in the home and to offer community support to every single member of these amazing families. When children stay in placement longer their educational and emotional outcomes are like to improve which impacts the likelihood of their graduating from high school.
Our Dare to Dream mentoring program supports youth ages 11-22 as they navigate and explore the possibilities for their future. It is our desire that each youth in foster care in our area will eventually have a mentor who will walk alongside them and help them create a sustainable plan for their future independent living. This will offset the grim statistics that 97% of youth who leave care at 18 face.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Children in foster care move an average of seven times every two years. Each time they move they can regress in their educational attainment four to six months. 50% of all youth who leave foster care will be unemployed in their early 20's. We know that only 50% of foster youth will graduate from high school. Only 3% will take advantage of the college tuition waiver provided by the state of Texas. Of the 97% who do not take advantage of the tuition waiver, 2/3 will be homeless, incarcerated, trafficked or dead within a year.
Our Love Box program provides the one thing that families that foster say they need to keep their homes open - more support. When homes stay open and have support for every person in the home, children experiencing foster care won't have to move. The less they move the more likely they are to stay on grade level (or get to grade level) academically.
Our Dare to Dream Mentoring program is designed to support youth as they prepare their plan for the future.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Amarillo Angels has amazing community support - both financially and volunteers. We have two case manager's on staff who manage our programs - recruitment, onboarding, training, providing resources, tracking data etc.
We have a dedicated working board who assists our Executive Director and case management team with all aspects of the work - marketing, financial, program support, community engagement, volunteer recruitment, partnerships, and board development.
Community members also volunteer to provide additional support on committees.
We are part of National Angels who also provide support for our organization.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have provided an average of 2.7 Love Boxes a day since we launched to the public in 2017. Families tell us that they would not be able to do what they do without our support.
Our mentoring program is new and small but very impactful in the lives of those being mentored.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
Financials
Revenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
0.00
Months of cash in 2021 info
7.7
Fringe rate in 2021 info
10%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
Transformations By Amarillo Angels
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
Transformations By Amarillo Angels
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | -$30,870 |
| As % of expenses | -13.1% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | -$30,870 |
| As % of expenses | -13.1% |
| Revenue composition info | |
|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $204,549 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 0.0% |
| Program services revenue | 1.0% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% |
| Investment income | 0.0% |
| Government grants | 0.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 99.0% |
| Other revenue | 0.0% |
| Expense composition info | |
|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $235,419 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 0.0% |
| Personnel | 38.8% |
| Professional fees | 1.8% |
| Occupancy | 4.2% |
| Interest | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 0.0% |
| All other expenses | 55.2% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $235,419 |
| One month of savings | $19,618 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $0 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $255,037 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Months of cash | 7.7 |
| Months of cash and investments | 7.7 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 7.8 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $151,931 |
| Investments | $0 |
| Receivables | $0 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $0 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 0.0% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $152,931 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $0 |
| Total net assets | $152,931 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Material data errors | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Executive Director
Gwen Wilson Hicks
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Transformations By Amarillo Angels
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Transformations By Amarillo Angels
Board of directorsas of 05/24/2023
Board of directors data
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Disability
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