KidSafe Collaborative
Legal name: Kidsafe Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030303867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burlington, VT, United States
- Phone
- (802) 863-9626
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $379,951
- Expenses
- $293,685
- Assets
- $465,982
- Liabilities
- $6,971
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN SCHATZ (PRESIDENT)
- LUCIA WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BETH WERMUTH-NICHOLS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- MEGHAN MASTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MEGHAN MASTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $79,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
KidSafe Collaborative engages community groups, individuals, and agencies to work together to improve the community’s prevention of and response to child abuse and neglect. Countless community members, business donors, foundations and organizations that contribute time and funds to the effort. Our Background KidSafe Collaborative grew out of a grassroots process when social workers and other human services provider realized they could be of greater service to families in need of support if they were able to share information about their clients – both children and adults. From this beginning – the first ‘child protection team’ meetings at the former Mary Fletcher Hospital in 1969 - grew long-term agency commitments to collaborate and work as a community to address and prevent child abuse and neglect.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kidsafe co-facilitates kidsnet, a partnership of agencies, community groups and individuals that work together, meeting monthly, to improve systems and strengthen supports for children and families; convenes the community advisory board to the family services division of the vt dept. For children and families (dcf) (burlington district office), to improve policy and practice via input and action by consumers and community members; co-facilitates the children exposed to domestic violence committee; co-organizes and convenes annual legislative forum focusing on issues of child maltreatment and domestic violence; presents annual recognition awards for outstanding service to improve the safety and well-being of children in our community. (continued on schedule o)kidsafe is an active participant in numerous state and local initiatives to improve child welfare policy and practice. Kidsafe collaborative's program activities take place almost entirely in space donated free of charge by collaborative partner agencies including schools, community centers, other governmental and non-profit social services agencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.4%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.4% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $237K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.