ECS4Kids
Legal name: Episcopal Children's Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591146765
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, United States
- Phone
- 904-726-1500
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,460,915
- Expenses
- $91,011,154
- Assets
- $20,141,320
- Liabilities
- $10,036,232
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR NATALYA BANNISTER ROBY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR NATALYA BANNISTER ROBY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $263,493 total reported compensation
- WENDY HUGHES (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $190,587 total reported compensation
- JEANNE DILLARD (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $181,293 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ECS4Kids helps communities rise above generational poverty through high-quality early childhood education and family support. ECS4Kids envisions a community where early education and multi-generational family support drive progress and innovation. MISSION ECS4Kids empowers communities to rise above generational poverty with comprehensive early childhood education and holistic family support. VISION ECS4Kids envisions a community where early education and multi-generational family support drive progress and innovation. MISSION. ECS4Kids empowers communities to rise above generational poverty with comprehensive early childhood education and holistic family support. At ECS4Kids, We Believe In.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school readiness (sr) program provides childcare subsidies for families that qualify and provides educational and technical support to childcare providers serving these families. Ecs4kids serves approximately 5,968 children on average per year and around 190 childcare providers monthly, as well as answering approximately 7,550 childcare resource and referral calls from the community. Families with children enrolled in this program receive free or reduced childcare fees from high quality providers, as well as developmental screenings and assessments. Ecs4kids education staff provided approximately 823 technical assistance visits and 52 trainings to 472 participants during the year to assist providers in implementing childcare best practices. Ecs4kids provides sr services in baker, clay, nassau, bradford, putnam, and st. Johns counties in northeast Florida through a contract with the early learning coalition of north Florida.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,347.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 60.8%; rating input score 61; 12th 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; 77th 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: -0.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $263K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $998K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 225 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 216 filed related-organization links
- 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 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.