Children in Placement Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061182114
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2037840344
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $611,824
- Expenses
- $529,727
- Assets
- $295,276
- Liabilities
- $30,254
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANET FREIMUTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JANET FREIMUTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,880 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the Connecticut foster care system.
What it reported doing in 2025
Children in placement trained 24 new volunteers, provided 3,760 volunteer hours, 161 children were assisted, 64 children received permanent placement in a safe home.children in placement recruits, trains and supervises an ethnically and racially diverse pool of local volunteers to become guardians ad litem ("gal") in Connecticut courts. After undergoing rigorous screening and criminal background and sex offender registry checks, gal volunteers then complete 40 hours of intense training before their case assignments and 12 hours of inservice training for each subsequent year. Gals are authorized by the court to investigate the needs of the whole child, including interviewing the child, biological and foster parents, educators, health care providers, therapists and others who may be involved in the child's life.in addition, cip offers a transitional support program for youth at risk. By pairing a consistent adult with a youth, trust is earned, valued and skills are learned to become thriving, contributing adults.for the year ended june 30, 2026, children in placement received donated services of $112,800 based upon total gal volunteer hours of 3,760 valued at $30 per hour. Although children in placement recognizes the value of the services provided by gals in our books and financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices, the in-kind donated services are not reported on the 990 as expenses or income.
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 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.6%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.6% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $450K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.