Cars for Charities Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453117580
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Phone
- 3166341800
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,080
- Expenses
- $105,000
- Assets
- $65,948
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Bernstorf (President)
- Andy Saindon (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Laura Bernstorf (President)
- Andy Saindon (Vice President)
- Mark Keeny (Secretary/Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was established to produce and operate car shows to raise funds for various charities.
What it reported doing in 2025
14th Annual car show with more than 5,300 attendees withall proceeds payable to two charities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.