Every Child Succeeds
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311628467
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5136362830
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,126,447
- Expenses
- $9,145,295
- Assets
- $9,359,379
- Liabilities
- $1,039,190
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Frey (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Stephen Davis (Governing Member): $2,814,849 total reported compensation
- Jeff Anderson (Governing Member Designee): $807,293 total reported compensation
- Robert Kahn (Director): $602,416 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment, emotional and behavioral health, and a significant, long term change in child and family trajectories.Every Child Succeeds draws upon research in child health, brain development, social ecology and prevention science to deliver a high quality, strong program. Principles and findings from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives will be used to support both the program objectives and services provided.
What it reported doing in 2024
Every Child Succeeds is an evidence-based prevention program that works with at-risk families during the critical developmental period, ages zero to three. Every Child Succeeds partners with families and communities to strengthen family well-being, support healthy environments, and optimize infant and toddler development. From inception through June 30, 2025, Every Child Succeeds provided 800,506 home visits and served 31,709 families. The program follows the standards of three national evidence-based home visitation models and ensures implementation with fidelity: Healthy Families America and Nurse Family Partnership in Ohio and HANDS in Kentucky. Focus areas of the program across models include maternal and child health, parental attachment, early literacy/pre-school readiness, social emotional development, referrals and linkages with other services, family self-sufficiency and stress reduction. Content is delivered by over 100 professional, well-trained home visitors (supported by approximately 25 staff and supervisors) who visit families between 2-4 times a month, developing and executing a family plan; delivering an evidence-based curriculum; promoting good decision-making and monitoring outcomes on a regular basis. The program uses a two-generational approach focused on parental support and education that results in children living in safe and stimulating homes and families moving towards independence and economic self-sufficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 73.7%; rating input score 74; 13th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.8M · 23 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.6M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.