Cherry Blossom Vacations Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862931096
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Elkton, MD, USA
Phone
2693428719
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,360
Expenses
$4,837
Assets
$338,078
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristen Perso (Board Chairperson and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kristen Perso (Board Chairperson and Executive Director)
  • Louise Reid Nichols (Board Member)
  • Rayline Manni (Board Member)

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

To gift no-cost vacation stays to adoptive, foster, and special needs families. In 2021 we began fundraising for the purchase of a vacation home to be owned by the nonprofit and used for the use of adoptive, foster, and special needs families to stay at for vacation at no-cost. In 2022, we began partnering with other vacation home owners who are donating time at their vacation homes for our Getaways program. In 2024, through the Getaways program, we served 10 families with no-cost vacation stays at various vacation homes around the country. In 2025, we served 7 families by gifting no-cost stays around the United States. Cherry Blossom Vacations pays for the cleaning fees associated with these stays making it no cost to the owner or guests. Our current expenses are mainly administrative associated with fundraising and the expenses related to guest's stays in the Getaways programs (began 2023).

What it reported doing in 2025

Continued fundraising towards the purchase of a vacation home to be owned by Cherry Blossom Vacations, Inc. which will be used for no-cost vacation stays for adoptive, foster and special needs families. Additionally, served 7 adoptive/foster/special needs families in 2025 by gifting no-cost vacation stays at vacation homes around the United States. Expenses include: cleaning of Getaway vacation homes $2669, office expense $338, fees and subscriptions $423, insurance $627, credit card fees $222.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 90
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 16.4%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88

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: 89.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 69.89; rating input score 99; 99th 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: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 16.4% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.