Taya and Chris Kyle Foundation
Legal name: Chris Kyle Frog Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472101671
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Midlothian, TX, US
- Phone
- (844) 336-2533
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,108,614
- Expenses
- $350,273
- Assets
- $1,261,711
- Liabilities
- $1,023,614
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAYA KYLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CECILIA ABOTT (VICE PRESDIENT)
- ESTEBAN BLANCO (SECRETARY)
- DD NAVY SEAL (TREASURER)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To save lives by providing unique tools and services couples need to save their marriage, their family, and each other.
What it reported doing in 2020
Awarenessckff works to bring awareness around the family support network of those serving our country - both on the military frontline and as first responders. The pressures that are a natural outcome of this dangerous and stressful work can often result in damaged relationships that fracture the family unit, creating additional stressors on those who serve, as well as the family members who support that service. Deployments can put great strain on marriages. Ckff knows there is a real need that isn't being met for first responders and military families who serve bravely but are struggling on the home front.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.3%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.6; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 21.3% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $235K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.