Council for Childrens Rights Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561325184
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7043727961
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,482,245
- Expenses
- $2,140,200
- Assets
- $1,485,932
- Liabilities
- $956,971
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deb Dilman (President)
- Deb Hanna (Past President)
Highest reported compensation
- Heather Johnson (Executive Dir.): $152,510 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Council for children's rights protects and advances the legal rights and development of children through individual representation, community education, and by addressing community wide issues through systems advocacy, research, and policy work.
What it reported doing in 2024
System Advocacy (Research): System Advocacy- the council identifies gaps in services to children and promotesimprovement in those services so fewer children fall into crisis. We championimprovement both through our own communications and by encouraging others to joinour advocacy. the council seeks to influence the learners of local and stategovernments to adopt new policies and to improve existing laws so all childrenreceive effective and efficient services. The council informs the public about howsystems are succeeding and where systems are falling to provide the services ourchildren need to be safe, healthy, and educated. We encourage the community to joinus in action to celebrate successes and to advocate for the correction of failures.Research is the core of the council's improvement of services for all children. Our research work draws on a wealth of information to guide our adoption and implementation of the best practices for helping children to be safe, healthy and educated. First, we capture and analyze our direct knowledge of the legal and social systems serving children in our community and the firsthand data accumulated from more than 35 years of standing up for children. Second, we collaborate with our communitys children and the solutions that work. Finally, we apply research from outside resources to confirm indemnified needs and to validate proposed solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -44.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.