Prevent Child Abuse America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237235671
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3126633520
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,081,099
- Expenses
- $2,761,208
- Assets
- $17,878,432
- Liabilities
- $2,741,739
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR MELISSA MERRICK (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR MELISSA MERRICK (PRESIDENT & CEO): $83,722 total reported compensation
- MARY LUBBEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $58,622 total reported compensation
- KELLY CHRISTOPHER (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $49,902 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prevent child abuse america's (pca america) mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect before it occurs. Since 1972, they have developed, promoted and scaled programs and resources proven by science that enable kids, families, and communities to thrive. They tackle this issue through three main approaches: intervention, advocacy, and research.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chapter activities: the prevent child abuse america (pca america) nationwide state chapter network ranges from independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to agencies that operate under umbrella organizations, such as government departments, hospitals, and universities. Chapters contribute invaluably to our comprehensive prevention efforts, providing state-level expertise and resources and ultimately amplifying our work widely in communities nationwide. They work in tandem with a wide array of community partners to deliver valuable day-to-day prevention work, including the formulation of innovative strategies to address issues such as child sexual abuse, raising awareness for the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and advocating with state and local governments to ensure that there is funding available for programs designed to benefit children and families
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.47; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 31 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $244K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.