Case Cares

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 331189197
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2019–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Lansing, MI, USA
Phone: 5173937710
Rating: 34
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Parks and Playgrounds

Reported finances

Revenue: $24
Expenses: $1,333
Assets: $5
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

JEFFREY BENSON (TREASURER)
WILLIAM BREWER (CHAIR)

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

Future construction of a barrier-free playground in lansing Michigan. The barrier free playground will be available to approximately 49,000 disabled children.

What it reported doing in 2025

Future construction of a barrier-free playground in Lansing, MI. The barrier free playground will be available to approximately 49,000 disabled children.

Operating model

Revenue model: Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 0
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 17
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -5,454.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -51.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -57.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.