Child Care Aware® of America

Legal name: Child Care Aware of America

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943060756
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
703-341-4161
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,254,703
Expenses
$32,050,607
Assets
$64,197,986
Liabilities
$42,927,055

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

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ENCARNI GALLARDO (VP/ PRESIDENT (EFF 1/1/25))
  • RENEE BOYNTON-JARRETT (PRESIDENT/PAST PRESIDENT (EFF 1/1/25))
  • SUSAN GALE PERRY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • FRANCISCO JAMISON (VP, MILITARY PROGRAMS & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RCOA)
  • APRIL DODGE-OSTENDORF (VICE PRESIDENT,EXECUTIVE AFFAIRS)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUSAN GALE PERRY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $424,691 total reported compensation
  • DONNA STEWART (FORMER CHIEF OF P&C (UNTIL 9/6/24)): $363,440 total reported compensation
  • MICHELLE MCCREADY (SVP, ORGANIZATIONAL ADVANCEMENT): $329,050 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Child Care Aware of America works to advance a child care system that effectively serves all children and families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Military child care programs: ccaoa partners with the united states military and the department of defense to help military families who are unable to access installation child care. Under this program, we: help military families find and afford quality child care; recruit and support child care providers and match them with eligible military families; support military families who have children with special needs with in-home respite child care; and use our research, policy expertise, and real-world experience serving military families to make america's child care system strong. Our military child care programs serve more than 22,000 families and 32,000 children each year through a nationwide network of more than 18,000 child care programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 58
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: 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: 6.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $425K · 32 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.9M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 7 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.