Beech Acres
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310536663
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5132316630
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,561,665
- Expenses
- $17,383,626
- Assets
- $85,073,038
- Liabilities
- $3,246,823
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHERINE LAURA MITCHELL (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JAMES MASON (PRESIDENT/CEO (RETIRED))
Highest reported compensation
- CATHERINE LAURA MITCHELL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $341,540 total reported compensation
- BRITTANY SPEED (CFO & COO): $228,800 total reported compensation
- CARRIE BUNGER (VP EFFECTIVE SCHOOL SOLUTIONS): $165,167 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Beech acres parenting center, an Ohio not-for-proft, has served children and families in greater cincinnati since 1849. We combine science and compassion to deliver innovative solutions that equip adults to meet children's needs and cultivate their strengths.at beech acres, we believe that every child deserves the opportunity to achieve their full potential in life and that parenting is the single greatest difference maker. We are passionately pursuing a world where all children are nurtured to discover, cultivate and apply their natural gifts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community and behavioral health: beyond the classroom (btc), our school and community based program, provides behavioral health services to help children, teens, and families with emotional or behavioral needs through assessment, counseling, community psychiatric supportive treatment and pharmacological management services. These families are supported with a continuum of prevention and intervention services required to foster their success in school and build family engagement. These services promote partnerships in the community among schools, community resources and families by working more intentionally to link school resources, school outcomes and school expectations with its partners' coordinated services. Beech acres currently partners with over 30 schools in the greater cincinnati area.family peer support, a component of the btc program, delivers support for caregivers within the beyond the classroom program. Providers work along side caregivers to help them reach their goals and empower them to help families reach their fullest potential. The program elicits the expertise of parents and caregivers who have faced similar obstacles and experiences with their children. Services include providing navigation of informal and formal community resources that support family needs, including concrete support, economic and social self-sufficiency, and physical/emotional wellness. The family peer support program guides parents through understanding and navigating systems such as school, mental health, and the court system. Family peer support has served over 5,900 at risk children in the past year.the character effect (tce) combines evidence-based positive science of mindfulness and character strength to transform a school. The flexible, developmental framework becomes a powerful force for aligning the adults in a student's life; parents, teachers, and administration. The character effect received evidence-based status by the center for disease control and prevention (cdc) and has begun to expand nationally over the last three years. Over 20,000 professionals and families were served over the past year. In addition to the service reimbursements, these programs are supported by government grants of $669,259.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.89; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $342K · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $177K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.