Reach the Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161569622
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairport, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852233344
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,093
- Expenses
- $166,146
- Assets
- $50,455
- Liabilities
- $622,193
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN CLAWSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- MARY HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $8,878 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reach the children facilitates self-reliance in communities dedicated to the well-being of under-priviledged children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Water and agriculture - rtc collaborates with communities to make clean water available for daily survival, animal & agriculture purposes. Rtc adopts a teach as you go focus and connects kitchen gardening to most projects so that schools, families and whole communities can benefit from the growing of food to supplement their daily diet. Rtc drills wells and provides pumps, does water-harvesting projects at schools and community buildings, provides clean drinking water and water forsmall farm irrigation by improving springs and cementing water holes and springs. Rtc also provides seeds, fertilizer and tools for gardening and farming, teaches several methods of gardening & does larger farm projects for selling.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 48.6%; rating input score 49; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 12.33; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.