Prevent Child Abuse Delaware Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510229667
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3024257490
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,126,015
- Expenses
- $1,201,986
- Assets
- $878,053
- Liabilities
- $298,030
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BROOKE NOWELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CLAUDINE WIANT (EXECUTIVE DI): $110,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As the leader in child abuse prevention activities in Delaware, the organization provides for an understanding of child abuse and its solutions, serves as a resource for individuals, families and communities, and advocates for enhances prevention policies and programs. Prevent child abuse Delaware (pcad) is delawares state lead and exclusive grant recipient of the federal community-based child abuse prevention (cbcap) grant, currently overseen by the federal administration for children and families. As such, pcad grants out monies to selected organizations whose community-based programs or initiatives demonstrate primary prevention of child abuse and neglect, and which engage in family strengthening or resilience. As the states lead grantor, pcad serves as the grant monitor and provides technical assistance to those subgrantees who require additional support. As a cbcap state lead, pcad is required to remit to an annual audit. Consistently, pcad audit reports show no findings of concer
What it reported doing in 2024
Community based child prevention programs providing leadership and resources for child abuse prevention and awareness in the state of Delaware. They accomplish this through statewide programs for both children and adults; and for families, communities and other organizations. Additionally, the organization provides grants and funding to other organizations in the state of Delaware to support their child abuse prevention initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $967K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $138K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.