Friends of the Child Advocacy Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205149362
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4104045679
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,896
- Expenses
- $31,931
- Assets
- $213,923
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Janet Whitcomb (President)
- Betsy Lyons (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Janet Whitcomb (President)
- Betsy Lyons (Vice President)
- Dyann Lonesome (Secretary)
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
Improvements to the community for young women
What it reported doing in 2025
Support of basic needs for young women within the communityrequiring assistance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.7; rating input score 88; 88th 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: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 31.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K 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: 14 filing years from 2012 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.