Committee for Children

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911188127
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
800-634-4449
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Child Abuse, Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,212,293
Expenses
$27,080,160
Assets
$25,869,572
Liabilities
$27,770,116

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kumar Mehta PhD (President)
  • Erin Maher PhD (Vice President)
  • Andrea Lovanhill (Chief Executive Officer)

Highest reported compensation

  • Andrea Lovanhill (Chief Executive Officer): $435,956 total reported compensation
  • John Lee Wilson - Chief (Operating Officer (Until 1/2026)): $321,875 total reported compensation
  • Polly Stansell (VP Product): $300,848 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To foster children's safety and well-being.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Education: Educating teachers, administrators, families, and the broader community about social-emotional skill development, bullying prevention, and personal safety for children through conferences, presentations, speeches, community awareness campaigns, legislative advocacy, media outreach, and printed and web-based materials. Community education goal: Increase community awareness of human skills development, child sexual abuse prevention, and bullying prevention through social media, publications, presentations, policy advocacy, and other outreach.(See Schedule O for more achievements.) - Expanded social media channels to increase awareness of human skills development, child sexual abuse prevention, and bullying prevention. - Added blog content to SecondStep.org to expand access to social-emotional learning resources that help educators strengthen children's skills. - Attended and presented at national and regional conferences, including ISTE and ASCA, two national organizations that support K12 education and collectively serve more than 50,000 members. - Hosted a national webinar with more than 1,000 registrants on "Empowering Student Mental Wellness: The Science of Adolescent Emotional Development." - Advocated for funding and policies that support safety and well-being through human skills development and helped connect human skills to outcomes such as attendance and digital literacy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $19.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $436K · 21 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $739K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.