Action for Delaware's Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834037589
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3029857502
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,810
- Expenses
- $32,804
- Assets
- $59,402
- Liabilities
- $5,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERRI HODGES EDD (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- MATT DENN (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- SENATOR LIANE SORENSON (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TERRI HODGES EDD (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- MATT DENN (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- SENATOR LIANE SORENSON (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The goal of action for Delaware's children is to be a voice for Delaware's children, especially those living in poverty. We believe that many delawareans want to help these children fulfill their potential, and we seek to educate members of the public about how the state can do that. Our hope is that the delawareans we reach will, in turn, ask their elected representatives to make the changes needed to help these kids.
What it reported doing in 2025
Working with dozens of dedicated volunteers and supportive elected officials, we have helped to advocate for significant expansions in quality pre-k, expanded school day, expanded school year, and student wellness center services for children living in poverty. We helped establish a new state program for juveniles leaving the state's juvenile detention facilities designed to reduce the number of those young people who are rearrested. We led efforts to revitalize the state's volunteer mentoring program in the state's public schools. And we joined with other advocates to help pass legislation that will dramatically reduce the exposure of young children to toxic lead-based paint.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.