Chambliss Center for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620505514
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4236982456
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,060,899
- Expenses
- $9,465,178
- Assets
- $20,754,216
- Liabilities
- $948,171
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
46 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATIE HARBISON (CEO)
- LIZ BLASBERY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RESI)
- LESLEY R BERRYHILL (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIO)
- SUMER ARISPE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EXTE)
- GLORIA J MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT OF SPECIAL)
Highest reported compensation
- KATIE HARBISON (CEO): $129,479 total reported compensation
- LIZ BLASBERY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RESI): $72,664 total reported compensation
- LESLEY R BERRYHILL (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIO): $71,424 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides early childhood education and/or residential care to abusedchildren.
What it reported doing in 2025
Children were served with early childhood education and/or provided residential care if abused or neglected.
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 89% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.4%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 27.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.4% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 46 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.