Children's Haven of Southwest Misso

What it reported doing in 2025

The mission of children's haven is to provide temporary shelter to children in a safe, secure environment while their parents resolve a family crisis. Each year hundreds of children ages birth through 17 years receive the nurturing care of our trained professionals while families retain custody and dignity while being individually assisted to directly access appropriate community resources to help resolve the often multifaceted crisis. A family crisis may include but is not limited to: homelessness or unsafe living accommodations, lack of utilities or food, parents or sibling hospitalization, fear of abusing or neglecting children and parent seeking mental health or substance abuse treatment. Through the services provided, the organization works to protect children, prevent child abuse and neglect, reduce family stress and keep families together. Crisis care is available for up to 24 children with future and/or emergency capacity of 42. Children's haven provides care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. While there are no income requirements to access our services, more than 90% of our children and families fall below the federal poverty guidelines. Due to the nature of crisis, most of the children we serve arrive with only the clothing they are wearing, in urgent need of a meal, clean pajamas and medical assessment to promote healthy living, hygiene supples, educational materials and encouragement, along with a soft, safe bed to catch up on much needed rest. Education services support and transport children to their "home" school when possible. Children's haven provides holistically for each vulnerable child that utilizes crisis care and provides for the emotional, medical, educational, physical and social needs that arise.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
• Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $18.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • 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: -12.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.75; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings