Childhood Leukemia Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521825483
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brick, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7329208860
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,677,379
- Expenses
- $1,774,886
- Assets
- $1,163,802
- Liabilities
- $20,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR ERIC FRANKENFIELD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA REID-HARAMIS (EXECUTIVE DI): $193,719 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate, empower and lift the spirits of children suffering with the devasting effects of cancer.
What it reported doing in 2025
Keeping kids connected ipads: the keeping kids connected ipad program allows young cancer patients to remain connected to their family, friends and schoolwork while actively receiving cancer treatment. Facetime, email and texts provide emotional and psychological support to hospitalized patients. Ipads also offer age appropriate distractions to help children cope with the anxiety and boredom associated with cancer treatment and hospital confinement. Playing a game, or engaging in artistic or musical activity, can relax a child and reduce the perceived trauma. Overall, the ipad is a welcomed tool for these patients to stay connected to their lives while in the hospital.
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
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $398K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $194K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.