Child Care Resource & Referral Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410987753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5072872020
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,424,379
- Expenses
- $23,489,227
- Assets
- $9,203,040
- Liabilities
- $1,375,786
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH STEVENS (PRESIDENT)
- ERICA SCHUMACHER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA FALLER (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KRISTIN QUENZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JONATHAN LOSNESS (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JONATHAN LOSNESS (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $182,217 total reported compensation
- RON LUCK (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $174,416 total reported compensation
- SANDY SIMAR (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $154,627 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure positive beginnings for all young children and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Child care aware of mn southern district provides early childhoodtraining, start up services under the wayfinder program, professional development advising, startup, regional, and emergency grants, along with parent aware services to regions 9 and 10 consisting of 20 counties in southern Minnesota. We serve family child care programs, and child care centers and with a grant from dcyf also serve family, friend, and neighbor and legal non-licensed providers. Child care aware of Minnesota southern district successfully held 203 trainings across 20 counties in 2025. Trainings consist of licensing required health and safety trainings and parent aware knowledge and competency framework based trainings. In 28 counties across Minnesota families first administers the early learning scholarship program. Awarded families use the scholarships for their child(ren) to attend high-quality child care and early education programs to ensure your child enters kindergarten ready to succeed. The scholarship money is paid directly to the program of your choice that is participating in parent aware. Parent aware is Minnesota's rating tool that recognizes programs offering services above the required licensing standards.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $111.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -0.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.