Kids Crossing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841251585
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7196301186
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,582,893
- Expenses
- $9,901,485
- Assets
- $5,214,699
- Liabilities
- $1,594,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT SABIN (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM L OESTERLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM L OESTERLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $215,746 total reported compensation
- HILARY BRIDGES (LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR): $143,798 total reported compensation
- TERRY OESTERLE (DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES): $127,899 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. Our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family preservation is an in-home, community-based service aimed at keeping children in the home. All family preservation workers are trained in tbri and conflict/crisis resolution. They are skilled in working with youth, exhibiting a wide range of difficult behaviors as well as problem-sexualized behaviors. Treatment is strength-based and focuses on the individual and the entire family unit. Our life skills program is aimed at helping individuals build skills and connect to resources. Life skill workers can assist clients with parenting skills, job searching and interviewing skills, improving social skills, and building connections to resources in their family/support system and the community. In 2024, we served 212 clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $9.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $216K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.