Center for Children's Law and Policy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760816129
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026370377
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,098,794
- Expenses
- $2,029,707
- Assets
- $1,102,903
- Liabilities
- $548,609
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- TIANA DAVIS (POLICY DIREC): $131,731 total reported compensation
- SANGEETA PRASAD (FORMER EXECU): $122,713 total reported compensation
- JASON M SZANYI (CHIEF EXEC.): $122,245 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center for children's law and policy (cclp)is a public interest law and policy organization.
What it reported doing in 2022
Improving conditions of confinement cclp staff are leading stop solitary for kids, a national campaign to end the solitary confinement of youth in three years. In collaboration with the council of juvenile correctional administrators, the center for juvenile justice reform at georgetown university, and the justice policy institute, we are pursuing strategies at the federal state and local level to achieve this goal. One in ten youth in juvenile facilities in this country report being sexually victimized by staff members or other youth during their stay. Our staff members also have expertise working with jurisdictions to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual misconduct. We have worked with agencies and facilities in New York, New Mexico, Indiana, and the district of columbia on implementation of the federal prison rape elimination act (prea) standards for juvenile facilities. Cclp has worked with state officials to create and update licensing standards for juvenile facilities to reflect best practices in the field. Cclp has worked with experts in medical care, mental health care, and education to conduct independent assessments of conditions of confinement juvenile facilities upon request.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 53.9%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -84.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 53.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.