The Children's Cabinet
Legal name: The Children's Cabinet Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770097156
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Reno, NV, USA
- Phone
- 775-856-6200
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,357,534
- Expenses
- $52,270,978
- Assets
- $16,567,089
- Liabilities
- $5,039,152
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLY YOUNG (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLY YOUNG (CEO): $240,999 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL BRAZIER (COO): $169,005 total reported compensation
- MARTY JEAN ELQUIST RASMUSSEN (CPO): $139,756 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To keep children safe and families together.
What it reported doing in 2024
The cabinet operates under a coordinated service delivery model designed to connect individuals and families to available resources regardless of their initial point of contact. The organization delivers services through more than 40 programs serving children, youth, and families throughout Nevada. Program services include early childhood education and family support, childcare resource and referral services, childcare subsidy administration, provider training, quality improvement initiatives, community outreach, and systems-building efforts. The cabinet also provides family counseling services, case management, school- and community-based support, and outreach services for runaway and homeless youth, including a 24-hour crisis response line. Additional programs include redfield academy, an onsite high school serving credit-deficient youth; youthbuild, a workforce development and education program; and emergency assistance services, including food, clothing, and other basic needs support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $164.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 97.1% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $3.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.