Cheris Choice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333219992
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
5124223061
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,880,583
Expenses
$92,706
Assets
$1,764,333
Liabilities
$5,380

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHERI BERGERON (President)
  • FAITH PILAND (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHERI BERGERON (President): $48,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cheri's Choice (the Organization) principally exists to (a) provide assistance to working women, of all kinds of ages, single, in partnerships or married, (b) assist the women to discover and navigate their individual, unique paths to motherhood, (c) assist women evaluate their priorities and the level of support available to determine whether single motherhood is a viable choice for them, (d) foster community building through seminars, public speaking events, and support groups to connect women with shared experiences and resources, and (e) offer individual counseling services to women at no cost throughout their journey of motherhood.The purpose of the Organization is to help working women discover and navigate their individual, unique, paths to motherhood, with or without a partner. This includes single women, married women, and single mothers in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's. The Organization will offer a variety of educational, community-building, and individual programs to help wo

What it reported doing in 2025

Cheri's Choice (the Organization) principally exists to (a) provide assistance to working women, of all kinds of ages, single, in partnerships or married, (b) assist the women to discover and navigate their individual, unique paths to motherhood, (c) assist women evaluate their priorities and the level of support available to determine whether single motherhood is a viable choice for them, (d) foster community building through seminars, public speaking events, and support groups to connect women with shared experiences and resources, and (e) offer individual counseling services to women at no cost throughout their journey of motherhood.The purpose of the Organization is to help working women discover and navigate their individual, unique, paths to motherhood, with or without a partner. This includes single women, married women, and single mothers in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's. The Organization will offer a variety of educational, community-building, and individual programs to help women consider their priorities and options when it comes to building a family. It will provide resources to help women explore their potential paths to motherhood (foster parenting, adoption, and fertility) and evaluate whether they have sufficient support to consider single motherhood. It will also help women cope with the disappointments, pain, and loss that often occur on this journey. Programs will be provided in the form of books, public speaking, seminars, support groups, and individual counseling at no charge to the women we serve.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.3%; rating input score 6
  • Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 95.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.03; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 51.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.3% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 6/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.