The Children's Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510195216
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8163631898
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,884,288
- Expenses
- $5,681,818
- Assets
- $29,885,317
- Liabilities
- $453,247
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN THOMAS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANN THOMAS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $129,147 total reported compensation
- POLLY HOWARD (VP OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION): $115,377 total reported compensation
- DAWN DOWNES (VP OF PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION): $110,415 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other traumas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Day treatment services are the most intensive and comprehensive of all services offered. Set within a naeyc-accredited classroom environment, 66 children aged 1-6 years old received individualized therapeutic services. This program combines speech language therapy, occupational therapy, and a variety of mental health services within a relationship-based learning environment to remediate the significant impact of traumatic events, abuse, and neglect. On average, children in this program have experienced 6 different traumatic events. The average length of treatment is 18 months, before children graduate with multiple mental health interventions and developmental scores within typical ranges. 36% of children served were female and 64% were male, of which 45% were caucasian, 38% were african-american, and 9% were multi-racial, 6% unknown/refused to answer, and 2% were pacific island/native american.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.26; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.