Frankfort Area Children's Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611018115
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Midway, KY, USA
Phone
5028753495
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,376
Expenses
$86,276
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA DARBY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LISA DARBY (PRESIDENT)
  • JASON HART (VICE PRESIDE)
  • ANNA WHITE (TREASURER)

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

The mission of frankfort area children's council, inc. Dba the sunshine center is to create a safe, neutral, and nurturing environment for children and families in our community through education for improved parenting and life skills, counseling and referral services to break the cycle of abuse, to provide supervised visitation between children and their non-custodial family members, to provide charitable interventions to support families in crisis, and to strengthen public awareness and understanding of the impact abuse has on families and children.

What it reported doing in 2025

The sunshine center provides parenting classes to teach individuals how to deal with the stress of being a parent by developing better communication skills, more appropriate approaches to discipline, and positive behavior management techniques.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 85% 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

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,455.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.