Child Loss Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204967588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Golden Valley, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128252073
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,234,681
- Expenses
- $1,648,797
- Assets
- $6,066,597
- Liabilities
- $1,285,407
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLY MCDYRE (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLY MCDYRE (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $186,850 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The child loss foundation continues to expand its reach and strives to be a nationally recognized leader in providing comprehensive support to parents grieving the death of a child through retreats, financial assistance and employer-sponsored benefits.
What it reported doing in 2025
Child loss retreatschild loss retreats offer a safe, supportive environment where grieving parents can find emotional support and connection with others who have experienced similar loss. Most retreats are held at the foundation's dedicated facility, faith's lodge, in northern Wisconsin, with additional retreats hosted at rented facilities in other regions. Each retreat includes group and individual counseling, wellness activities such as massage and meditation/yoga, memorial experiences, private accommodations, and all meals, with financial assistance available to ensure accessibility. Since first welcoming guests in 2007, we've served more than 13,000 individuals seeking connection and hope. In 2025, 580 people attended more than 30 retreats throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.68; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 29/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.