Carson Valley Children's Aid

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
231352623
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Glenside, PA, US
Phone
(215) 368-2200
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,668,298
Expenses
$18,328,321
Assets
$20,035,741
Liabilities
$15,048,682

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Margaret Rux (PRESIDENT)
  • Margaret Greenway Chaplin (vice president)

Highest reported compensation

  • Charles Wisniewski (Medical Director): $226,230 total reported compensation
  • LAURIE CORBIN (SECRETARY): $195,579 total reported compensation
  • Dana Grace (Director of Behavioral Health): $160,668 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To strengthen families and support children in achieving their full potential through comprehensive, community-based services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community based programs: philadelphia and montgomery counties: a full continuum of community based placement services are offered including: foster care, general and treatment; community homes, a form of treatment foster care with up to fouth youths living in a home with a professional parent; supervised independent living apartments for older youth; in addition, there are prevention and early intervention services such a truancy, parents as teachers, and rapid service response programs. Norristown is the location of the family center and housing resource center. Teachers, and rapid service response programs. Norristown is the location of the family center and housing resource center.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 66% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 65.1%; rating input score 65
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -34.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 65.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $226K · 10 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $869K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.