Safe Sitter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311184693
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fishers, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3175965001
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $964,876
- Expenses
- $1,018,173
- Assets
- $620,380
- Liabilities
- $31,676
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JON KROEHLER (PRESIDENT)
- SHERRY OSWALT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA STUCKWISCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA STUCKWISCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $102,330 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Safe sitter is a life and safety skills program with a medical basis that trains adolescents and others to be safe while home alone as well as safely care for younger children.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization prepares young adolescents for the profound responsibilities of nurturing and protecting children. The organization has almost 900 teaching sites from coast to coast. Each year almost 35,000 young adolescents take the course. There are over 2,800 safe sitter instructors. Most young adolescents lack the knowledge of first aid, rescue skills, behavior management techniques and life experiences necessary for handling medical, behavior, or household emergencies which might occur. Successful completion of an education program addressing these competencies should be a community standard for all those who care for children. Students in all courses must demonstrate acceptable skills in infant/child cpr. Students in the 12 hour course must also demonstrate the ability to apply injury and behavior management techniques. All sites registered to teach safe sitter utilize only safe sitter trained instructors for student instruction thus ensuring high quality and compliance with teaching methodologies. There have been over 150 documented cases of lives saved by the organization's graduates using their knowledge and skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $691K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.