Childrens Legal Defense Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863884113
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dushore, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5704064487
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,047
- Expenses
- $121,278
- Assets
- $167,511
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Caitlin Lambert (President & CEO)
- Hamse Khayre (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Caitlin Lambert (President & CEO)
- Hamse Khayre (Vice President)
- Helaina Stein (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote a justice system in Somaliland that respects the human rights and legal protections of children, youths, the poor, the vulnerable and their families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants totaling $120,000 were made to "Children's Legal Defense Center Somaliland." The grants were to support legal aid services for juveniles facing criminal charges/convictions. Moreover, a grant in the amount of $80 was made to purchase a license for QuickBooks online for "Children's Legal Defense Center Somaliland."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.