River Valley Child Development Services
Legal name: River Valley Child Development Services Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550706025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Huntington, WV, US
- Phone
- 304-523-3417
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,089,388
- Expenses
- $15,515,911
- Assets
- $9,600,707
- Liabilities
- $3,688,370
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE MULLINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE MULLINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,807 total reported compensation
- COREY DORSEY (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $87,246 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RVCDS provides quality services and support to children, families and the early childhood community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Child care resource and referral (ccr&r): rvcds oversees three childcare resource and referral (r&r) programs that work with families, childcare providers, and community organizations to promote quality childcare services in designated regions. For families, the r&r programs provide childcare referrals, information on finding quality childcare, and help determine if families are eligible for subsidized care. For childcare providers, the r&r's assist individuals who want to become family childcare providers, and offer childcare providers access to training, technical assistance, and coaching. These programs are funded by wv department of human services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 72.6%; rating input score 73; 15th 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; 66th 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: 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: 3.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 11 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 46 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 44 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.