The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation of America

What it reported doing in 2024

The foundation is dedicated to eradicating child labor and child exploitation by educating and mobilizing the public, engaging the private sector to prioritize children in their business models, building capacity of partners on the ground and advocating for the protection of children in national and international policies.the foundation believes that all children must live freely with dignity and have the fundamental right to be safe, healthy and educated in order to realize their potential. The foundation partners with grassroots and national organizations working to free and rehabilitate child laborers and victims of child trafficking, slavery, sexual abuse and child marriage, who engage and collaborate with the authorities to deliver survivors' rights to health, education and justice. The foundation also brings together passionate actors advocating for the rights of children everywhere to share their knowledge, experience and influence to achieve innovative and impactful policy change at every level.in response to the rise of child labor violations in the us, coupled with the weakening of state level child labor laws, the foundation continued to maintain a website that serves as a resource for decision makers and concerned individuals where they can learn more about the status of child labor in the united states. The website is updated regularly with news from across the united states, including details about us department of labor investigations and prosecutions, along with links to national and local news coverage of child labor issues. In addition, the website includes an interactive map that contains the child labor laws in each state in an accessible and easy to understand format. State labor law is notoriously difficult to find and interpret. This map is groundbreaking in its simplicity. It allows anyone to quickly access a particular state's labor laws and see how they compare to the federal labor standards. The foundation continued to co-convene the new collective of civil society organizations working to address child labor in the us. The collective, campaign to end us child labor, was officially launched in february 2024 and publicly shared an agenda with recommendations for ways to protect children from child labor in the us. On june 12, 2024, the campaign organized a briefing on the issue of us child labor.on march 11 and 12, 2024, the fourth laureates and leaders for children summit, organized by the foundation was to be held in nepal. Unfortunately, due to events beyond our control the collapse of the government in nepal the event was cancelled a week before the summit was to take place. In its place, the laureates and leaders for children conclave: creating a compassionate world for children was organized in new delhi to launch the satyarthi movement for global compassion (smgc) on march 11. Built upon the 4+ decades of kailash satyarthi's work, smgc is a global movement to ignite compassion in action to achieve justice, equity, peace and sustainability for all. Speakers at the conclave included former prime minister of monaco, he serge telle, 1997 nobel peace laureate. Jody williams, chief justice lelio bentes corra (president of the superior labor court, brazil), kscf us' board member, kerry kennedy, kailash satyarthi along with other international and indian dignitaries.building on the strength of the justice for africa initiative in 2023, the 100 million campaign organized youth activists and organizations across numerous countries, primarily in africa, and held campaigns and other programming focused on the imf and world bank as well as commonwealth education ministers, among other efforts. In may, to coincide with the 2024 conference of commonwealth education ministers (ccem) taking place in london, the justice for africa campaign launched a new briefing exposing the education inequality crisis between commonwealth countries and demanding urgent action to prevent a looming unequal future. The briefing,

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
• Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
• Fundraising efficiency: $415.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Limited
  • Conducts field audits: Pass
  • May suspend future funding: Limited
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Pass
  • Requires grant agreements: Limited
  • May require repayment: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 37th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings