Hamilton Center for Child Advocacy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270487290
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4797831002
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,071,534
- Expenses
- $970,318
- Assets
- $815,221
- Liabilities
- $164,740
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARCUS COKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHANNON GRAMS (PRESIDENT)
- LAURIE BURNETT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DANNY BAKER (DIRECTOR)
- SHARON NGUYEN (DIRECTOR)
- SAMANTHA COLE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center provides services to children and the non-offending parent/guardian who have been victims of physical and/or sexual abuse.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides forensic interviews, medical services and advocacy to child abuse victims and their families
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,759.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 9.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $888K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.