Cease of Scott County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274280588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Austin, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8126972107
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $344,338
- Expenses
- $261,269
- Assets
- $213,289
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Bailey Conner (Chair)
- Megan Broughton (Vice-Chair)
- Dylan Baker (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CEASe of Scott County develops and implements a comprehensive community strategy to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of substance use, misuse, and addictions among youth and adult in Scott County to become a community of abundant life and dignity where prevention is stress, and treatment and recovery are always possible. To this end, we oversee Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Board, provide early intervention for youth experiencing mental health and substance use challenges, provide bereavement support, address cardiovascular disease among the population who have current or historical stimulant use, and participate in our county's overdose data to action programming.
What it reported doing in 2025
Day Reporting is an alternative to secure detention for Scott County youth who are disengaged from traditional school and have had law enforcement contact. This program welcomed the first youth on June 24, 2025. These youth are typically expelled from school due to criminal acts, have poor academic achievement, engage in substance use, and/or have problematic behaviors as a result of mental health symptoms. Youth report to the building from 9:30am to 2:30pm Monday through Thursday at 9:30am to 1pm on Friday. Youth are provided psychoeducational groups, time to conduct virtual education, and engage in community service. During the fiscal year, 154 groups were provided to the youth engaged in the program and all participating youth achieved passing academic grades during their time in our program. Youth engaged in the program experienced reduction of substance use, improved emotional regulation, improved academic performance, and a decline in criminal behavior.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% 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. 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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 108.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 148.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $257K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.