Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260158723
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Rogers, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4796210385
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,649,195
- Expenses
- $3,062,607
- Assets
- $5,358,390
- Liabilities
- $169,664
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- TERRIE BARTON (BOARD MEMBER)
- MICAH BRANDON (BOARD MEMBER)
- TOMMY COUGHLIN (BOARD CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide a place for child abuse victims/families to receive comprehensive services from professional interviewers, specialized nurses, counselors & advocates in a child-friendly atmosphere through a coordinated team approach, as well as provide child abuse prevention, awareness, and education and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide a variety of services to child abuse victims and their families, including professional interviewers, specialized nurses, counselors and advocates coordination of services using a team approach community education. The organization also provides residential housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.