Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

What it reported doing in 2024

1. Expenses $1,853,481 including grants of $668,094 revenue $1,964,417child care health consultant (cchc) network. Funding for this program began on 9-1-2020 and ended 6-30-2024. From january 1, 2022, to june 30, 2024, the child care health consultant (cchc) network awarded 1,297 grants to child care providers across Kansas. This included 1,047 start-up stipends, and 250 health and safety grants. These grant opportunities supported new and existing programs in establishing or maintaining safe, high-quality environments for children.during the project period, the cchc network engaged 5,597 potentially new and licensed child care providers through non-consultation methods, resulting in a total of 25,405 engagements. Additionally, 260 providers participated in the new provider engagement and technical support (nets) initiative, accounting for 670 engagements, while 1,258 additional engagements included grants as a core activity.a total of 7,102 consultations were completed with 1,839 potentially new and licensed providers. Among them, 1,065 received more than one consultation, and 1,067 consultations were directly related to grant support. Notably, one program received 64 consultations over two years, from march 2022 to may 2024the highest number recorded within the network. This sustained, individualized support highlights the cchc network's commitment to meeting the diverse and evolving needs of Kansas child care providers.2. Expenses $501,550 including grants of $474,029 revenue $502,792baby steps, preschool development grant, is an innovative pilot that seeks not only to offset the revenue lost by caring for infants and toddlers, but also to bring family child care providers' income up, due to loss of wages when the provider enrolls infants. Participating child care programs receive support from Kansas' infant toddler specialist network and services aimed at improving the quality of care for young children, and increase the likelihood that a child care provider will accept one or more infants. The baby steps pilot project is currently serving 44 family child care programs, and providing access to care to 45 infants in 4 Kansas counties within the Kansas city metro area. In 2024, baby steps made payments to child care providers to help offset the loss of income Kansas providers face.3. Expenses $217,406 including grants of $163,900 revenue $225,898dcf enrolled child care provider incentive payments (funded by american rescue plan act (arpa) of 2021 through Kansas department for children and families) financial assistance to dcf enrolled child care providers based on the findings of the difference from current subsidy rates to the increased subsidy rates from the narrow cost analysis completed by prenatal to five fiscal strategies in july 2022. These funds are also intended to help offset the cost of enrolling with dcf as a provider who can accept child care assistance for newly enrolled providers. 85 providers received payments in 2024. 4. Expenses $42,713 including grants of $0 revenue $45,896accounting services for Kansas parents as teachers association (kpata) on october 1, 2019, kaccrra entered into an agreement with kpata to provide accounting services.5. Expenses $213,127 including grants of $187,000 revenue $252,612arpa start young wage bonuses are offered in partnership with the family conservancy for child care providers in wyandotte county. The overall goal is to create a systemic approach to early childhood education that will improve the access and quality of child care, in wyandotte county and beyond. Bonuses are given out 4 times over 2-years to child care workers employed for at least one month to incentivize employee retention.6. Expenses $77,140 including grants of $0 revenue $87,096child care go team was initiated in 2022 in an agreement with university of Kansas center for public partnerships and research. The child care go team consists of representatives from Kansas department of health and environment, ka

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
• Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $291.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings