Compress and Shock Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814994130
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- First Aid
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $234,099
- Expenses
- $263,502
- Assets
- $119,236
- Liabilities
- $686
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jack Perkins MD (Founder and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jack Perkins MD (Founder and Executive Director)
- Karen Perkins MD (Vice Director and Director of Fundraising)
- Seager Wilson (Director of Finance)
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
Our mission is to bring free and equitable access to CPR and AED education to all communities with a specific dedication to those communities most adversely affected by cardiac arrest due to race, ethnicity, primary language, or access to healthcare education.
What it reported doing in 2025
In our effort to provide free CPR and AED training to the public in 2025, a total of 5,479 learners were trained across 152 trainings in 11 states (CA, DC, IL, MA, MD, MO, NC, NY, TX, VA, WI) and a total of 87 AEDs were placed into underserved communities at no cost to these communities. This was accomplished through our annual June CPR/AED Education Day (6/7/25), where we trained 1,569 learners at 41 training locations and placed 34 AEDs, and our annual October training date (10/19/25), which resulted in 382 learners trained at 13 locations and 11 AEDs placed. The remaining 3,528 learners trained and 42 AEDs placed occurred at various community events throughout the year. During the year, training were taught in 6 different languages (English, Spanish, ASL, Dari, Somali, Hmong).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
STRONG - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $209K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.