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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,000,565
Total expenses
$1,757,791
Contributions and grants received
$1,977,162
Grants paid
$9,214
Program service revenue
$28,473
Investment income
$7,977
Other revenue
-$13,047
Total assets, end of year
$1,916,729
Total liabilities, end of year
$267,205
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,649,524
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,508,147
Management and general expenses
$119,802
Fundraising expenses
$129,842
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,508,147

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $8,076

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $183,687

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $878,780

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $906,619

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $1,900

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Therapy

    total $28,473 · related or exempt $28,473

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $7,977 · excluded $7,977

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $19,130

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $183,687

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $32,177

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$13,047 · excluded -$13,047

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $9,214 · program services $9,214

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $110,235 · program services $73,857 · management and general $27,559 · fundraising $8,819

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $961,714 · program services $818,894 · management and general $57,448 · fundraising $85,372

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $59,738 · program services $51,258 · management and general $3,158 · fundraising $5,322

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $79,845 · program services $66,604 · management and general $6,220 · fundraising $7,021

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $16,350 · management and general $16,350

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $270,746 · program services $270,746

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $22,732 · program services $17,417 · management and general $1,370 · fundraising $3,945

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $22,643 · program services $21,511 · management and general $566 · fundraising $566

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $47,171 · program services $44,643 · management and general $1,702 · fundraising $826

  • 17 · Travel

    total $12,134 · program services $8,434 · management and general $244 · fundraising $3,456

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $29,056 · program services $29,056

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $55,433 · program services $52,662 · management and general $1,386 · fundraising $1,385

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $31,921 · program services $26,151 · management and general $3,518 · fundraising $2,252

  • 24a · Other expenses: Dues and Fees

    total $23,339 · program services $12,519 · management and general $281 · fundraising $10,539

  • 24b · Other expenses: Other

    total $5,520 · program services $5,181 · fundraising $339

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $415,648 · end of year $150

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $122,150 · end of year $591,726

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $212,501 · end of year $422,583

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $27,405 · end of year $40,775

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,269,914

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $408,419

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $876,914 · end of year $861,495

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $89,368 · end of year $65,945

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $158,500 · end of year $201,260

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,308,105 · end of year $1,298,766

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $98,645 · end of year $350,758

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.

  • Child Advocacy Center, Inc. (the Center) a Florida Not-for-Profit corporation located in Gainesville, Florida provides child-friendly, safe and supportive environment for abused, neglected, or trafficked children. The Center is a place where professionals social workers, counselors, law enforcement officers, state attorneys, victim advocates, medical professionals and others work as a team to coordinate investigations and interventions for each child abuse case. This multidisciplinary team collaboration expediates each childs time in the legal system and ensures that children are not re-victimized by the system, and that they and their families are provided the support and services needed to heal. In conjunction with this multi-disciplinary team approach, the Center offers a variety of trauma-informed services including specialized play therapy for child victims, their non-offending caregivers and siblings, forensic interviews, case management and tracking. In 2025, the Center provided these services to 2,585 child victims, providing 206 forensic interviews, and 5,804 therapy sessions. In total over 4,482 victims were helped and 20,340 victim advocate services were provided. The center is the only location in the area that is child-focused and utilizes the trauma-informed model adopted nationally by the National Childrens Alliance as a best practice for treating children who have suffered abuse. All services at the Center are available free of charge to child victims for as long as they are needed.

    Expenses $1,508,147 · Grants $9,214 · Revenue $28,473

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Sherry Kitchens

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $110,235
    From this org
    $101,545
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,690
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jeff Quigley

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Roberts

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna Weseman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joel Brown

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tamelia Malcolm

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Deese

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shirley Green-Brown

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jen Lesshafft

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Krefting

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lem Purcell

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Shaw

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maggie Drotos

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Tanner

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Farley

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristi Crane

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lindsay Higgins

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Runi Foster

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pam Schneider

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chrissy Zeretzke

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
22 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611739349301006

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