CARE House of the Pee Dee
Legal name: The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203852301
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Florence, SC, US
- Phone
- 843.629.0236
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,328,830
- Expenses
- $1,327,040
- Assets
- $1,448,806
- Liabilities
- $268,381
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEG TEMPLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MEG TEMPLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $123,219 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As a children’s advocacy center, CARE House of the Pee Dee’s mission is to promote help, hope, and healing in a nurturing environment to child abuse victims and their families, through supportive services and prevention.
What it reported doing in 2024
Care house serves the pee dee community with investigative and therapeutic services for child maltreatment victims and their families. In 2025, 1600 evidence based counseling appointments were provided using five forms of evidence supported therapy. Four of these therapies are not otherwise available locally and one is available in only four locations in the state. Eight hundred thirty four investigative services were completed with children from at least 23 counties, and 813 disclosures of abuse and maltreatment were made by these children. Care house serves families throughout the life cycle of their case, providing hope, help and healing at each step.
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.
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.