Christmas Commandos
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201944356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Phone
- 5742862282
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Gift Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,156
- Expenses
- $98,164
- Assets
- $146,751
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Claire Johnston (Executive Director and Trustee)
People named in this filing
- Claire Johnston (Executive Director and Trustee)
- Lynn Viater (Trustee)
- Charels Viater (Trustee)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide much needed emotional support to families that have experienced the unexpected loss of a beloved family member. This support comes through the magical, anonymous delivery of special gifts during the Christmas season. The goal is to remind surviving family members that they are loved by their community and have not been forgotten during an incredibly difficult time.
What it reported doing in 2025
Over 50 families received holiday gifts to ease the emotion pain of losing a family member during the year.
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 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 55% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.