Child Advocacy Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311705396
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523769161
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,000,565
- Expenses
- $1,757,791
- Assets
- $1,916,729
- Liabilities
- $267,205
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sherry Kitchens (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Sherry Kitchens (Executive Director): $110,235 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
What it reported doing in 2025
Child Advocacy Center, Inc. (the Center) a Florida Not-for-Profit corporation located in Gainesville, Florida provides child-friendly, safe and supportive environment for abused, neglected, or trafficked children. The Center is a place where professionals social workers, counselors, law enforcement officers, state attorneys, victim advocates, medical professionals and others work as a team to coordinate investigations and interventions for each child abuse case. This multidisciplinary team collaboration expediates each childs time in the legal system and ensures that children are not re-victimized by the system, and that they and their families are provided the support and services needed to heal. In conjunction with this multi-disciplinary team approach, the Center offers a variety of trauma-informed services including specialized play therapy for child victims, their non-offending caregivers and siblings, forensic interviews, case management and tracking. In 2025, the Center provided these services to 2,585 child victims, providing 206 forensic interviews, and 5,804 therapy sessions. In total over 4,482 victims were helped and 20,340 victim advocate services were provided. The center is the only location in the area that is child-focused and utilizes the trauma-informed model adopted nationally by the National Childrens Alliance as a best practice for treating children who have suffered abuse. All services at the Center are available free of charge to child victims for as long as they are needed.
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 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 12.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.