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ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC

EIN 48-0888057 TOPEKA, KS

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Revenue 2024
$2,402,645
Expenses 2024
$2,267,471

Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P83L
Classification
2000
Street
1100 SW WANAMAKER RD STE 201

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE AGENCY SUPPORTS THE HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY CHILDCARE OPTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONALS.

  • SERVICES TO CHILDCARE PROVIDERS AND PROGRAMS. THE AGENCY PROVIDED APPROXIMATELY 1,649 CHILDCARE PROGRAMS IN THIRTY-THREE COUNTIES IN EASTERN KANSAS WITH ACCESS TO RESOURCES, CONSULTATION SERVICES, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ALL PROGRAMS RECEIVED ONGOING EDUCATION THROUGH WRITTEN MATERIALS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BY PHONE AND/OR ON-SITE CONSULTATION FOCUSED AT HELPING CHILDCARE PROVIDERS IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CARE OFFERED TO YOUNG CHILDREN.

    Expenses $2,046,707 · Revenue $13,926

  • CHILDCARE REFERRALS TO FAMILIES. REFERRALS WERE PROVIDED TO 8,137 UNIQUE/UNDUPLICATED FAMILIES WHO SEARCHED FOR CHILDCARE IN 2024. WE HAD 14,215 COMPLETED REFERRALS AND 7,988 CHILDREN WERE SERVED THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF KANSAS. CONSUMER EDUCATION WAS OFFERED TO EVERY FAMILY TO ASSIST THEM IN RECOGNIZING AND CHOOSING HIGH QUALITY CHILDCARE THAT WOULD MEET THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN AND FAMILY. REFERRALS ARE CONDUCTED BY TELEPHONE, IN PERSON, AND ONLINE WITH MOST FAMILIES RECEIVING MULTIPLE CHILDCARE REFERRALS AS WELL AS INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Amy Bauer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Catherine Deters

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Catherine Shafer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Cherie Sage

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christina Schmitt

    TREASURER-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dawn Bicknell-Reiser

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deb Crowl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Erin Lewis

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Beasley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jordan McKnight

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kelly Trussell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lisa Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lisa Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Natalie Gordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nicole Lang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sarah Elsen

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $122,671
    From this org
    $105,040
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,631
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,402,645
    Expenses
    $2,267,471
    Contributions
    $2,378,913
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,992,052
    Expenses
    $2,200,403
    Contributions
    $55,872
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,803,317
    Expenses
    $1,753,226
    Contributions
    $86,476
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,702,059
    Expenses
    $1,639,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,282,108
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,589,927
    Expenses
    $2,571,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,266,527
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,629,614
    Expenses
    $1,517,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,101,662
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,467,616
    Expenses
    $1,411,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,140,295
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,372,065
    Expenses
    $1,185,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,107,798

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.