Father Flanagan'S Boys' Home

“The Treasurer reviewed the completed Form 990 and provided an electronic copy to the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors for their review. The members of the Finance and Audit Committee were requested to submit their comments and questions. Upon satisfactory resolution of questions, an electronic copy of the final Form 990 was provided to all directors before it was filed.”

“Father Flanagan's Boys' Home regularly and consistently monitors and enforces its conflict of interest policy through official annual affirmations, self reporting, and observation. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home has a separate conflict of interest policies for trustees, the executive director, and employees. Trustees must complete a conflict of interest disclosure form and report any perceived or actual conflict. Any perceived or actual conflict of interest is reviewed by the compliance department with the assistance of general counsel. If a conflict does exist, the Executive Committee, with the assistance of general counsel, shall determine an appropriate remedy which may include, without limitation, the Trustee to recuse him/herself from participating in certain deliberations and votes, removing the trustee from a committee or Board. Officers and employees of Boys Town complete a Conflict of Interest Disclosure annually, identifying all actual, apparent, and potential Conflicts of Interest. Staff are also required to report any situation involving a conflict of interest that may arise during the year to their supervisor and submitting a Conflict of Interest Disclosure for review by the compliance department. If a conflict of interest does exist, the Compliance department would work with the employee and supervisor to remedy the conflict of interest. Any perceived conflict of interest can also be reported for review through a confidential organizational ethics line at https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/18137/index.html”

“The compensation of the organization's CEO is determined by the Board of Trustees Compensation Committee using comparable data for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. Documentation of the decisions made regarding the compensation have been maintained. The compensation of all other officers are also determined as described above.”

“Refer to answer for Part VI Line 15a.”

“Father Flanagan's Boys' Home makes its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available to the public upon request. Articles of incorporation and bylaws can also be obtained by the public through the various Secretary of States offices. Financial Statements are available to the public upon request and on its website at www.boystown.org”

“- Total Revenue: 2076479, Related or Exempt Function Revenue: 2076479, Unrelated Business Revenue: , Revenue Excluded from Tax Under Sections 512, 513, or 514: 0;”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“(Expenses $ 31,233,282 including grants of $ 600,165)(Revenue $ 8,637,242) HOME CAMPUS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM - SEE SCHEDULE O FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION”

“Increase in value of beneficial interest in external trust assets - 6876245; Increase in beneficial interest in Father Flanagan's Fund for Needing Children - 43425740; Decrease in interest in affiliated organizations - -16922474; Increase in pension related charges - 4018095; Actuarial loss on annuity trust obligations - -1060722; Timing of cash transfers - 3934638; Total - 40271522;”