Climb4KC

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472943082
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cancer

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,655
Expenses
$42,761
Assets
$69,769

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Weight (President)
  • Karalie Bischoff (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Christopher Weight (President)
  • Julie Card (Director)
  • Reisha Tejpaul (Director)

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

Raise Funds for Kidney Cancer Research and patient advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

Climb4KC supported the Kidney Cancer community by hosting the annual stair climbing fundraiser at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland OH. Kidney cancer patients community members and medical professionals registered for the event and came together for a day of fundraising support and hands on experience. Total Event Expenses: 13,775

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -156.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.