Episcopal Center for Children (ECC)
Legal name: The Episcopal Center for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530204692
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, United States
- Phone
- 202.363.1333
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,130,929
- Expenses
- $1,405,390
- Assets
- $16,492,774
- Liabilities
- $254,993
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE C NASH LICSW (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE C NASH LICSW (PRESIDENT/CEO): $139,987 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At ECC, we believe Every Child Can. We believe in a world of possibilities for children and their families, working to support children and families through an enriching afterschool program and a therapeutic day school for children coping with emotional disabilities. We believe in a world of possibilities for children and their families. We work to support children and families through an enriching afterschool program and a therapeutic day school for children coping with emotional disabilities. Reviews. Learn more about our organization's history. A teacher and children playing musical instruments in a classroom..jpg/:/cr=t:12.51%25, l:0%25, w:100%25, h:74.99%25/rs=w:600, h:300, cg: true) Our mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
In september 2023, the center launched an after school enrichment program for the lafayette elementary school community to support children in grades pre-k through 5th grade. Enrolled students participate in creative, enriching activities that emphasize teaching children to build social skills and friendships with safety, respect, and responsibility. The program facility includes an art studio, music room, recreation areas, media room and gymnasium. The program's mission is to provide a safe, fun, and creative learning environment for children. Emphasis is placed on teaching children to build social skills and friendships with safety~respect~ responsibility.
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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 59.5%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.74; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 59.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $836K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.