Prevent Child Abuse Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363779007
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2175221129
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,031,961
- Expenses
- $953,792
- Assets
- $429,854
- Liabilities
- $100,429
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Trickey (President)
- Cherie Sieger (Vice President)
- Tarra Winters (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Tarra Winters (Executive Director): $77,423 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prevent child abuse in Illinois through education, awareness, advocacy, and community support
What it reported doing in 2024
Prevent Child Abuse Illinois provides key leadership for child abuse prevention throughout Illinois by providing prevention awareness and education, community outreach, public policy advocacy, and the promotion of prevention programs. Prevent Child Abuse Illinois provides primary prevention programs that promote healthy child development, encourages positive parenting skills, and prevents child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. Our programs include: Child sexual abuse prevention, including the Stewards of Children curriculum; Promoting infant safety through Happiest Baby on the Block, Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) prevention, and promoting safe sleep environments; Substance abuse and Families, including facilitation of DCFS/SUPR groups, leadership for the Illinois DEC (Drug Endangered Children) Alliance, leadership for the Metro East Meth and other Drugs Conference, and cross training as it relates to child abuse and substance abuse; Childhood Trauma by promoting the understanding of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study) and use of Trauma Informed Care principles by providing resources, training and technical assistance, and participating in community coalitions; The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children, facilitating cross training and technical assistance; Child Abuse Prevention Month by providing public awareness and education activities addressing child abuse and neglect and promoting child and family well-being; Child Abuse Prevention Coalitions throughout Illinois to address the needs of local communities; and Prevention Awareness Literature Distribution program that provides brochures and resource material for parents and professionals on multiple child abuse prevention topics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd 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: 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: Fail
- 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: 7.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $856K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.