Children's Aid Society

Legal name: Children's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
231429838
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New Oxford, PA, United States
Phone
(717)-624-4461; (717)-814-8095; (717)-264-8552; (717)-845-5771
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Children's, Youth Services
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,025,622
Expenses
$2,509,580
Assets
$15,484,374
Liabilities
$5,564,898

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC M CHASE MS M DIV (PRESIDENT/CE)

Highest reported compensation

  • ERIC M CHASE MS M DIV (PRESIDENT/CE): $113,042 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Empowering children and their families to build stronger, healthier lives. Veronica Gilman, MA is a full-time Art Therapist at the Lehman Center in York, PA. Steph received her Master's degree in Art Therapy from Marywood University in August 2024. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Illustration and Art Therapy at the University of the Arts in May of 2021. Veronica has a background in trauma-informed outpatient and full-time emotional support school-based settings, where she has been fortunate to work with children, teens, and young adults from a variety of backgrounds. Contact.

What it reported doing in 2024

Empowering children and their families to build stronger, healther lives. We provide support services for children and parents; including child centered art therapy, a crisis nursery for short-term respite childcare, long-term housing for homeless youth age 6-13, parent education and support groups, family advocacy casework, 24 hour parent & caregiver tollfree hotline, a children's clothing bank that includes toys & diapers.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.9%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.17; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 40.9% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.