The Crawford Child Advocacy Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841324009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9704079739
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $548,111
- Expenses
- $560,740
- Assets
- $967,085
- Liabilities
- $412,999
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA LYND (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TRAVIS HITT (EXECUTIVE DI): $62,585 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to prevent and respond to abuse and victimization through proven child-centered methods, professional forensic interviews, and collaborative advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Forensic services: for cases of suspected maltreatment (physical or sexual abuse, neglect, witness to domestic violence, trafficking, etc.), of a child or developmentally delayed adult, law enforcement or the dept. Of human services will bring the victim to the crawford child advocacy center (ccac) for a neutral forensic interview, which then becomes evidence in the case. The ccac also provides non-acute medical exams for the victim, advocacy and support to the non-offending caregivers, emergency funds for families in need, and referrals to community resources to help support the recovery of the victim and family. Increasingly, the ccac is involved when children witness domestic violence or homicide, in cases of developmentally delayed adults suspected of being sexually abused, and child sex trafficking cases. The ccac forensic interviewers are specifically trained to perform forensically sound interviews of victims on the autism spectrum and those with cognitive or communication challenges.
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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd 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; 64th 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: -2.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $411K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.