Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270627714
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Everett, WA, USA
Phone
4253496200
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,634,345
Expenses
$1,455,229
Assets
$6,250,999
Liabilities
$944,441

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TOM SEBASTIAN (PRESIDENT/CEO, COMPASS HEALTH)
  • LORI VANDERBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • TIMOTHY STEEN (PRESIDENT)
  • PAM DANIELS (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • JASON CUMMINGS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TOM SEBASTIAN (PRESIDENT/CEO, COMPASS HEALTH): $367,417 total reported compensation
  • TAMERA SANDERS (CFO, COMPASS HEALTH (THRU 10/24)): $289,068 total reported compensation
  • LORI VANDERBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $220,805 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dawson place child advocacy center is a group of professionalsresponding to the concerns of child abuse. We are dedicated to helpingkids, seeking justice, and promoting healthy families. We coordinatemultidisciplinary responses to child physical and sexual abuse.

What it reported doing in 2024

Dawson place child advocacy center is a not-for-profit organization uniting the main public and private agencies who serve child abuse victims in snohomish county. The partner agencies include snohomish county sheriff, providence intervention center for assault and abuse, snohomish county prosecuting attorney, compass health, and child protective services. Each law enforcement agency in our county comes to dawson place for child forensic interviews. All agencies work collaboratively to provide separate but coordinated services for sexually or physically abused, drug endangered, or severely neglected children. We are a fully accredited child advocacy center under the national children's alliance (nca). From july 1, 2024, to june 30, 2025, we served 903 children and their non-offending family members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% 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.
  • 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.3; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $367K · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $137K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 9 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.