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Name:	Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Address:	14100 Crawford Street
	Boys Town, NE 68010
Phone:	800-217-3700 402-498-1001
Web Address:	www.boystown.org
Also known as: Boys Town

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (Boys Town) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

The Boys Town Integrated Continuum of Care is based on a series of programs set up to provide children and families with the right placement and right treatment at the right time. These programs range from preventative services in the home to restrictive out-of-home placements for children with severe behavioral and mental health disorders. In between this range are school educational programs, in-home family counseling services, traditional and treatment foster care, short- and long-term family style residential programs and specialized group homes. Attention to the medical needs of all children in their programs is a priority. Boys Town owns and operates two specialized hospitals and 10 pediatric clinics. The hospital program also conducts research and specializes in childhood deafness, visual impairment, and related communication disorders.

For the year ended December 31, 2009, Boys Town's program expenses were:

Boys Town National Research Hospital	82,718,000
Boys Town National Hotline and Public Services	72,737,000
Programs Across America	56,923,000
Nebraska/Iowa	45,247,000
Home Campus Education	12,634,000
Total Program Expenses:	$270,259,000

Chief Executive : Reverend Steven E. Boes, President

Compensation*:

$96,332

Highest Paid Executive: Patrick Brookhouser, M.D.,Vice President and Director, Health Care
Compensation*: $579,069

Chair of the Board: John T. Reed
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Managing Member, Reed Capital Partner, LLC

Board Size: 16

Paid Staff Size: 3435

*2009 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, special events, print advertisements, grant proposals, Internet appeals, and planned giving.

Fund raising costs were 17% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $120,424,000, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

Boys Town incurred joint costs of $15,690,000 for informational materials and activities that included fund raising materials. Of those costs, $1,687,000 was allocated to program expenses, $13,210,000 was allocated to fund raising expenses, and $793,000 was allocated to administrative expenses.

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Boys Town's audited financial statements (consolidated with affiliates) for the year ended December 31, 2009.

Source of Funds
Program service revenue	133,441,000
Realized and unrealized gains on investments	110,596,000
Contributions	108,338,000
Investment income	24,387,000
Legacies and bequests	12,086,000
Gain on beneficial interest in trust assets	7,558,000
Other revenues	2,188,000
Total Income	$398,594,000

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 88%  Fund Raising: 7%  Administrative: 5%

Total income				$398,594,000
	Program expenses			$270,259,000
	Fund raising expenses			19,989,000
	Administrative expenses			14,099,000
Total expenses				$304,347,000
Income in Excess of Expenses				94,247,000
Beginning net assets				903,247,000
Other Changes in Net Assets				(1,016,000)
Ending net assets				996,478,000
Total liabilities				143,337,000
Total assets				$1,139,815,000

Note 1: Boys Town received $67,652,000 of in-kind income in 2009 including advertising and airtime ($67,629,000) as well as contributed services ($23,000).

Note 2: In the above financial section, "other changes in net assets" is a $1,016,000 loss due to pension-related changes other than net periodic pension cost.