Children with Disabilities Fund International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300625547
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Warrenton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5713308410
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disabled Persons' Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $452,971
- Expenses
- $419,878
- Assets
- $67,995
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT H KLIMA ATTORNEY AT LAW (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT H KLIMA ATTORNEY AT LAW (PRESIDENT)
- KEITH Q MURRAY (VICE PRESIDE)
- VERONICA HOPE HARMS BFA (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide services and resources to orphanages and other similar institutions in developing countries where children with mental and physical disabilities are placed.
What it reported doing in 2025
In kenya, cdfi supported approximately 260 disabled children and their families. Cdfi grants funded employment of ten program coordinators and paid the school fees for those children who are able to attend school; coordinated a child sponsorship program, where sponsors were put in direct communication with their sponsored child and his or her family, and encouraged to pray for the child. Cdfi has established a micro enterprise system which enables parents of the children in the program to support themselves. Cdfi grants funded the purchase of seeds and fertilizer for every family in the program so that they could grow their own food. Because these families live in mud houses without plumbing or electricity, and with very little furniture, the disabled children were sleeping either on thin mats or on the ground. Cdfi purchased mattresses, sheets and pillows for every child in the program. Cdfi paid for the construction of a bath house on the property which was purchased the previous year for headquarters for the program. Several abandoned disabled children reside at a foster home built on the property.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $396K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.