Childrens Leukemia Research Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208365998
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6516538353
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,272
- Expenses
- $33,149
- Assets
- $165,945
- Liabilities
- $10,302
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca A Metz (President)
People named in this filing
- Rebecca A Metz (President)
- Floyd J Zdrojkowski (Secretary/Treas)
- David Metz (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To Support Children's Leukemia Research in Clinical Settings.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Foundation's purpose is to provide funding of scientific research to improve treatment modalities for Children's Leukemia, and eventually to formulate a cure of the disease, and to make public the resullts of such research.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.01; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.