Children's Home Society of Florida
Legal name: The Children's Home Society of Florida
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 590192430
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Orlando, FL, US
- Phone
- 1-800-226-4545
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,423,740
- Expenses
- $89,258,617
- Assets
- $75,292,648
- Liabilities
- $15,154,410
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDRY E SWEET (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDRY E SWEET (PRESIDENT & CEO): $361,750 total reported compensation
- KYMBERLY A COOK (VP & CHIEF OF EXTERNAL AFFIARS): $261,933 total reported compensation
- BARBARA J MCDONALD (CFO & CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER): $214,116 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 partner with families from early childhood through career – so every child has a clear path forward.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community solutions: promoting safe communities and schools: chs serves communities and collaborates with multiple partners to create solutions that support entire communities, such as mentoring, youth employment, community outreach, social service navigation, wellness centers, neighborhood engagement in education and community partnership schools. In these schools and services, chs and partners work to remove barriers to learning (hunger, homelessness, illness), address health equity, promote opportunities through enrichment activities during and after school, promote youth development and provide a solid foundation for academic instruction. In community partnership schools, community leaders, parents, teachers and students have a voice in a shared governance model with a shared vision, goals and outcomes for the school and surrounding neighborhood. Results include increased graduation rates, improved school attendance, reduced disciplinary actions in schools, and increased health and safety in the school and surrounding neighborhoods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: Limited
- 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: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $73.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $362K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $736K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.