A Child's Place Pa

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824982608
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Phone
4122327200
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Child Abuse, Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,851,948
Expenses
$3,496,521
Assets
$5,253,810
Liabilities
$237,966

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TERRI CLARK (PRESIDENT/SE)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR MARY CARRASCO (EXECUTIVE DI): $100,096 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Child's place pa is a fully accredited child advocacy center of the national childrens alliance. Acps mission is to improve the health, safety, and well-being of children, particularly those at risk for abuse and neglect. Acp coordinates service with a team, including law enforcement, child protective services, and victim services, as needed, when child sexual abuse is suspected or occurred.

What it reported doing in 2024

A child's place pa is certified and approved by the Pennsylvania department of public welfare to provide child welfare services for children and youth in the counties of : allegheny, westmoreland, fayette, beaver, Washington and butler. Since 1999, a child's place, pa has been a leader in the assessment and prevention of child abuse in western Pennsylvania. Acp is a fully-accredited child advocacy center dedicated to improving the health, safety, and well-being of children, particularly those at risk for abuse and neglect. Acp provides a child-friendly atmosphere in which suspected child victims of abuse and neglect are evaluated, in addition to education and advocacy services related to the assessment and prevention of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children, including our healthy parenting classes, support for currently or previously incarcerated mothers, and outreach and awareness for human trafficking. For the period of this report, acp provided child advocacy services to more than 2,000 children, provided more than 100 human trafficking trainings, and graduated it's 300th parent from the triple p evidence-based parent education curriculum. Additionally, acp continues to assist approximately 20 incarcerated women each month with case management information, substance abuse information, and referrals into a support project that enables these women to read, record, and send storybooks to their children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.