Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Program and advocacy: throughout the year, ccc produced a range of data-driven tools and research projects that exposed persistent inequitiesparticularly those affecting communities of colorand elevated the lived experiences of youth, parents, and service providers. These insights directly informed advocacy at the city and state levels. Amid a rapidly evolving policy landscape, ccc remained steadfast in protecting hard-won progressfrom New York city's universal pre-k and 3-k initiatives and expanded afterschool opportunities to statewide efforts to reduce child poverty, strengthen behavioral health supports, and reform child welfare and youth justice systems. Leveraging its policy, budget, and research expertise, ccc engaged elected leaders, agency officials, and advocates across the stateproducing testimony, fact sheets, letters, and analyses that shaped key debates, guided decision-making, and countered proposed federal cuts threatening critical investments in children and families.through leadership in the healthy minds, healthy kids (hmhk) campaign, family homelessness coalition (fhc), kids can't wait coalition, campaign for children (c4c), raise the age (rta) and solutions not suspensions (sns) coalitions, the child and family wellbeing action network (cfwan), and the New York can end child poverty coalition, ccc transformed data and community knowledge into coordinated advocacy. Working alongside lived experts and partners across sectors, ccc advanced policies that expand access to behavioral health care, early intervention, housing, child care, youth justice, and anti-poverty supportsdemonstrating how research, lived experience, and collective action drive lasting change for New York's children and families.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
• Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings