Children's Bereavement Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650918564
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3056684902
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,567,331
- Expenses
- $1,346,131
- Assets
- $2,238,257
- Liabilities
- $231,893
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBRA ALBO-STEIGER LCSW (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBRA ALBO-STEIGER LCSW (CEO): $173,508 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to empower children, teens, adults, and families to adjust to life after the loss of a loved one within a supportive community of their peers and to promote healthful grief, healing, and growth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Training: cbc also provides grief-informed training, customized education, and consultation services forprofessionals at hospitals, hospices, healthcare agencies, and schools. Cbc's trainings address the unique ways that grief can be experienced across one's lifespan as well as practical strategies for providing compassionate and effective grief support across diverese multicultural spectrums both individually and within a community-based organization. Cbc trained 420 grief informed training attendees, 335 individuals attended cbc's lunch and learn grief education forums for professionals, and 369 individuals attended community conferences, trainings, and workshops.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.3%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.3% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $906K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $174K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.