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MANATEE CHILDRENS SERVICES INCORPORATED

EIN 59-1771210 BRADENTON, FL

Revenue 2024
$5,778,867
Expenses 2024
$5,146,563

Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I720
Classification
1000
Street
1227 9TH AVENUE W

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

Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.

  • RESIDENTIAL: Manatee Children's Services operates a continuum of residential programs that provide immediate safety and long-term stability for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Through the Emergency Shelter, operating since 1979, children ages 6-17 receive short-term care including crisis intervention, counseling, academic support, and advocacy while permanent placements are arranged. Across reporting periods, approximately 97% of children served in the Emergency Shelter consistently demonstrate at least two age-appropriate personal safety strategies, such as identifying unsafe situations, understanding how to report threats, and recognizing appropriate boundaries: skills shown to reduce future risk of abuse. Children requiring longer-term care may transition to one of MCS's licensed residential group homes, which provide trauma-informed, family-style care and 24/7 supervision for youth ages 10-17, many of whom are at risk of or have experienced human trafficking. By prioritizing placement stability and individualized services, approximately 96% of youth in MCS group homes reliably develop and demonstrate age-appropriate independent living skills, including personal care, communication, budgeting, household responsibilities, and problem-solving. Together, these residential programs emphasize protection, healing, and skill development to support safe transitions into permanent homes or independent adulthood. TREATMENT: Since 1993, Manatee Children's Services has provided specialized, evidence-based mental health treatment to child abuse victims and their non-offending family members through Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Delivered through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (SATP), this trauma-informed, family-centered program reduces trauma-related symptoms while strengthening caregiver protective capacity and long-term safety. Non-Offending Caregiver groups equip caregivers with the skills needed to recognize risk, respond to disclosures, and maintain safe, stable home environments, while children learn to identify unsafe situations, understand boundaries, resist grooming behaviors, and report abuse. Program success is measured through post-treatment safety outcomes that reflect both child skill development and improved caregiver support. Across reporting periods, approximately 99% of participants who complete treatment consistently experience abuse-free home environments for up to 18 months following services, demonstrating sustained ability to recognize and respond to personal safety threats and reinforcing families' capacity to prevent future harm. PREVENTION: Manatee Children's Services operates a comprehensive portfolio of prevention programs designed to stop abuse before it occurs by strengthening families, educating youth, and reducing risk factors associated with maltreatment. Through evidence-based and nationally recognized programs including TRUTH (Teens Reaching Understanding Through Healthy Relationships), GAP (Grandparents as Parents), KIDS Personal Safety, and family-focused prevention initiatives, children and caregivers receive education, advocacy, and skill-building support that promote safety and stability. TRUTH serves youth ages 10-17 and their families with a focus on healthy relationships, personal safety, and teen pregnancy prevention; across reporting periods, 100% of participating youth consistently remain free of first-time or repeat pregnancies for up to 18 months following program completion, reducing stressors linked to increased abuse risk. GAP supports kinship caregivers who step in to care for children removed from unsafe environments, providing parenting education, peer support, advocacy, and resource connections; approximately 99% of families served through GAP reliably remain stable, abuse-free, and avoid entry or re-entry into foster care, helping children remain safely with relatives. KIDS Personal Safety and related prevention programs deliver age-appropriate education that teaches children to recognize unsafe situations, understand boundaries, and seek help from trusted adults, reinforcing early protective skills. Together, these prevention services strengthen family functioning, reduce the likelihood of abuse, and support safer, more resilient homes across the community.

    Expenses $2,099,418 · Grants $104,587

  • The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) serves more than 13,000 children annually that are either victims of child abuse or suspected of abuse. The CAC maintains its exceptional accreditation by the federally recognized National Children's Alliance and continues to accomplish the goal of providing potentially lifesaving evidenced based services to children and families. Prevention Services include parenting education to high risk parents that have abused or neglected their children in an effort to reunify them safely with their children. Pregnancy prevention services are offered to youth at risk of pregnancy, drug abuse and other forms of delinquency. Personal Safety skills designed to prevent child abuse are taught at every elementary school in Manatee County, reaching thousands of school aged children. (continued- Sch O) Kinship services such as support groups, basic needs referrals and services are provided to over 150 Grandparents annually to preserve relative placements for abused children. Therapy Programs provide evidenced based treatments to children that have been physically and sexually abused, witnessed domestic violence, violent crimes or suffer from extreme parental neglect. More than 95% of children seen in this program were able to overcome abuse related behavioral and emotional difficulties and developed safety skills to prevent further abuse and healthy ways to cope with past trauma.

    Expenses $1,947,221 · Grants $4,026

  • The Child Protection Team provides alleged child victims of abuse with specialized, non leading interviews and expert court testimony. A trained child abuse medical provider provides medical exams to collect physical evidence of abuse as well as expert testimony.

    Expenses $574,245 · Grants $713

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.

  • BILL TOKAJER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID REALI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JESSE CARR

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LAVERNE ROUTH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DANIEL WINKELMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DOUGLAS BEMIS SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • EMILY VELEZ JERREHIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HENRY LAWRENCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KELLI MARTINEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LAUREN BENSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • NATHALIE POSTHUMA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VANESSA CASTRO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHERYL ANDREWS

    COO

    Total calculated
    $111,630
    From this org
    $108,173
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,457
    Hours/week
    40

  • JULIA ROBERTSON

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $113,631
    From this org
    $104,674
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,957
    Hours/week
    40

  • MELINDA THOMPSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,833
    From this org
    $132,576
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,257
    Hours/week
    40

  • ALYSSA ERICKSON

    ARNP

    Total calculated
    $109,093
    From this org
    $100,227
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,866
    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
    $5,778,867
    Expenses
    $5,146,563
    Contributions
    $5,578,748
    Grants paid
    $109,326
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,027,367
    Expenses
    $4,733,183
    Contributions
    $5,005,823
    Grants paid
    $133,298
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,171,091
    Expenses
    $4,289,436
    Contributions
    $4,110,132
    Grants paid
    $119,272

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,534,094
    Expenses
    $3,499,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,400,031

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,648,138
    Expenses
    $3,291,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,452,064

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,886,540
    Expenses
    $3,279,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,493,318

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,952,005
    Expenses
    $2,971,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,422,397

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,070,285
    Expenses
    $2,870,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,419,893

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,863,840
    Expenses
    $2,773,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,067,497

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,664,411
    Expenses
    $2,790,614
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,940,540

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,437,171
    Expenses
    $2,737,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,157,893

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,326,250
    Expenses
    $2,557,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,470,867

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,520,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,416,794

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.