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CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC

EIN 31-1705396 GAINESVILLE, FL

Revenue 2025
$2,000,565
Expenses 2025
$1,757,791

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I72
Classification
1000
Street
500 E UNIVERSITY AVE STE A

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 · 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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,000,565
    Expenses
    $1,757,791
    Contributions
    $1,977,162
    Grants paid
    $9,214
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,495,451
    Expenses
    $1,497,783
    Contributions
    $1,445,800
    Grants paid
    $4,206
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,479,192
    Expenses
    $1,449,684
    Contributions
    $1,373,073
    Grants paid
    $11,100
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,517,442
    Expenses
    $1,477,003
    Contributions
    $1,427,306
    Grants paid
    $8,848

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
    $1,579,275
    Expenses
    $1,300,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,418,130

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $998,774
    Expenses
    $1,075,616
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,304,656

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,196
    Expenses
    $1,042,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,913,811

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,041,871
    Expenses
    $1,014,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,094,741

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $813,594
    Expenses
    $825,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,048,159

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $725,277
    Expenses
    $669,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $345,203

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $725,277
    Expenses
    $669,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $345,203

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $643,569
    Expenses
    $603,006
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,155

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $657,985
    Expenses
    $578,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,883

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $538,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $214,184

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.