Southern Az Childrens Advocacy Ctr Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263208123
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5207242119
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,304,642
- Expenses
- $2,113,214
- Assets
- $1,578,168
- Liabilities
- $171,117
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gilbert Robles (Vice President)
- Kathy Winger (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Marie Fordney (Executive Dir.): $99,269 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the chidrens advocacy center of southern Arizona is to provide a safe, compassionate, healing environment for children who have been a victim or witnessed a crime. Vision: provide each child with the safety they need to tell their story provide each family member with healing services hold abusers accountable. Values: collaboration-we work across sectors with public and private partners to prevent and address abuse quality- we strive for excellence in all we do, for the sake of the children and families we serve impact- we work to change lives we touch for the community we call home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Childrens advocacy centers were developed in the mid-1980s to address systematic problems of coordination and care for child abuse cases. Research clearly shows that advocacy services are essential for the future well being of victims and their healing process. Minors who do not receive service at cacs are less likely to receive medical and mental health assessments or follow-up, and are less likely to participate in the prosecution of offenders. The cac model also encourages the involvement and commitment of the vicitms family in their long-term healing. Sacac provides professionally coordinated, bilingual services to support families and to investigate and prosecute child abuse and neglect. Following national standards, sacacs dedicated, certified professional staff provides forensic interviews, connections to resources, and medical services in a single youth-friendly location. Use of this model reduces victim stress while also nearly doubling the rate of prosecution. Our dedicated, professional staff provide crisis intervention for immediate support and stabilization during the initial visit. Case management and wraparound services for children and their families support their journey of healing through the criminal justice process. This may include referrals to community resources as well as therapy, family support groups, survivor empowerment programming, and simple supports like groceries, toiletries, and school suppplies. 100 of our clients indicate their child felt safe at the center and that they received the information and support they needed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.