Chances for Children

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205835605
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Phone
4806597625
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,772,427
Expenses
$1,909,176
Assets
$1,986,687
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHI JUNTUNEN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • RENELUS MAXINE (DIRECTOR): $80,000 total reported compensation
  • KATHI JUNTUNEN (PRESIDENT): $19,800 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Chances for children works through the local church to uplift the children of haiti via agriculture efforts, food, security, pediatric medical care, orphan care, child placement (adoptions), jobs for mothers and education for children. This is accomplished through a variety of in-country programs in 14 locations in haiti.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program service expenses: 78,701, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 women's empowerment - chances for children's women's empowerment program includes vocational training in sewing and jewelry skills as well as microlending to female small business owners. Program service expenses: 168,445, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 21,756 medical clinic - chances for children provides affordable medical services to support families in haiti through pediatric medical and dental clinics in kenscoff and mobile medical clinics in rural villages. Program service expenses: 202,218, grants and allocations: 750, revenue: 0 haiti general: general program support for the organiztion's overall mission of building stronger communities in haiti but were not allocated to a specific program area. These expenditures provided essential programatic support to ensure the effective delivery of services across all our initiatives. Program service expenses: 41,333, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 education - chances for children has five schools in remote villages throughout haiti, providing a very low-cost education to over 600 students. Program service expenses: 11,714, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 guest house: the organization operates a guest house in haiti to support the effective implementation of its mission-related programs. The guest house provides accommations for up to 20 persons of visiting team and mision groups. The guest house serves as a logistical hub, ensuring safe, reliable lodging, reducing operational barriers and maximizing the impact of their service contributed to the core programs. Program service expenses: 93,197, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 community development - chances for children's community development program is designed to help encourage remote villages to continue to progress towards sustainability.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -7.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.