Brevard C.A.R.E.S.
Legal name: Brevard Cares Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271095348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, US
- Phone
- 321-752-4650
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- ERIC AUSTIN (BOARD CHAIR)
- MERTON L CLARK (BOARD MEMBER)
- DAVID R HILL (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CARES helps prevent child abuse and neglect by providing resources to strengthen families so children may remain safely at home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community prevention initiative is a family centered, strength-based and community-driven approach to child abuse prevention through our unique "wraparound- and "family team conferencing" approach. We offer a full continuum of care and support services to families experiencing stressors that may lead to neglect, abuse or abandonment. The program has had a positive impact on the families and children we serve, helping to prevent situations or events that would result in a child being removed from his or her home. Its success is due to the proactive participation of the families in need who openly engage in the process, building upon the successes and skills within their family unit that will sustain them long term. In the current year aggregated data for the four quarters indicated that 96% of clients who successfully completed the program did not have verified findings of child abuse after 6 and 12 months of program completion at the end of june 30,2024. 93% of the families engaged in the family team conferencing and 100% of the families who successfully completed the program were satisfied with the services they received through brevard cares. Brevard cares served 783 children and prevented more than 330 families from entering the formal dependency system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.