Children First Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561706105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9194896837
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,548
- Expenses
- $132,721
- Assets
- $114,769
- Liabilities
- $7,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donna King (Executive Director/Secretary/Treasurer)
- Kathleen Hurwitz (Current Parent/President)
- Erwin Byrd (Community Rep/Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Donna King (Executive Director/Secretary/Treasurer)
- Sarah Meyer (Teacher Rep/Director)
- Gerry Cohn (Current Parent/Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Child care
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided 12 preschool aged children with childcare within a school setting
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $119K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.