Circle of Care-the Chambers County Counc and Dependent Children and Youth Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237133284
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Valley, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3347684091
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,008,292
- Expenses
- $2,252,090
- Assets
- $2,139,513
- Liabilities
- $54,685
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDSEY LANIER (PRESIDENT)
- LAURA MCKAY (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- KEA COSTLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEA COSTLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $72,930 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The circle of care center for families offers programs and services designed to strengthen and support families while improving the quality of life and promoting the safety and well-being of children in chambers county.
What it reported doing in 2024
The chambers co. Council for neglected & dependent children & youth, inc., dba: the circle of care center for families (the center), provides a wide range of services designed to strengthen families. Each year the center provides education, resources, and support to roughly 2,000 families in the high poverty chambers county, Alabama area. The services provided revolve around five major areas of family life: safety, basic needs, healthy relationships, financial stability, and basic physical and mental health. Major programs include: case management, fatherhood and parenting skills development, relationship education, at risk youth services, bullying prevention, workforce development, adult education/ged, marriage and family therapy, entrepreneurship development, child developmental screenings, transportation for children and expecting mothers' health care appointments, fema crisis assistance, project share utility assistance for the elderly and disabled, and humans trafficking awareness and prevention training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -12.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 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: 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.