Kids Central Inc
Overview
Mission
Protecting children. Supporting families. Engaging communities. To develop and manage a child-centered community-based system of care for abused, neglected and abandoned children and their families, in order to strengthen families and prevent them from entering the child welfare system.
What it reported doing in 2024
Case management - develop and manage case plans for children that enter the child welfare system. Each child's case plan includes a goal for the best outcome for the child, such as reunification with the child's family, placement with a relative or non-relative caregiver, or adoption. Case workers then manage the case plans by visiting the children, families and caregivers and arranging for the services identified in the case plans that are needed to achieve the best outcomes for the children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030423152
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Wildwood, FL, USA
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $3,063.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.19; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $81.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $239K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link