Every Child Has a Name Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 204692541
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2015–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $175,854
Expenses: $180,623
Assets: $29,749

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

SUSAN COLOMBO (Secretary)
ELAINE MCCARTHY (Treasurer)
DANIEL NERHBASS (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Every Child Has a Name addresses the concerns of orphans worldwide and supports a wide spectrum of work. The primary areas of focus are facilitating adoptions, specifically adoption of older children, supporting of orphans who are institutionalized and care and training for orphaned children who age out of orphanages before being adopted.

What it reported doing in 2025

Training for children who age out of orphanages

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as 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: 96
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 24
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $170K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 6 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.