Cornerstones of Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431689138
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165083500
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,308,881
- Expenses
- $66,206,967
- Assets
- $29,939,940
- Liabilities
- $16,202,887
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MERIDETH ROSE (CEO/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MERIDETH ROSE (CEO/PRESIDENT): $333,233 total reported compensation
- JILL BECK (CFO/TREASURER): $192,935 total reported compensation
- JUSTIN HORTON (CHIEF PROGRAM AND INNOVATI): $182,752 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The therapeutic school options within cornerstones of care are gillis (k-8) and ozanam (9-12). These schools provide educational and therapeutic services to 110 students who are on an individualized education plan. These students are contractually placed by over 32 public schools and 10 charter schools. While students are in our care, not only do we educate them in core subject areas such as math, science, reading, language arts, and social studies. The students are also exposed to a variety of elective classes such as physical education, art, music, and horticulture. The classrooms are self-contained and supported by additional staff as well as the classroom teacher. Each student is assigned a therapist, and they receive 30 minutes of individual therapy as well as group therapy per week.build trybe, is a career technical education team and is a mentorship community that builds health and independence by empowering youth with employable skills. It is a bridge connecting youth, who lack a stable support system, to opportunity. Our team of trade experts and community partners connect youth to three skill-based career paths: culinary, construction, and landscape. The students supported come from Kansas foster, Missouri foster, and day treatment schools as well as outside partner agencies.a program of cornerstones of care, behavior intervention support team provides training and support to teachers, parents, and administrators in pre-k to 12th-grade public, private, charter, and parochial schools in suburban, urban, and rural settings throughout the united states. With services and training for individuals, teams, or entire faculties tailored specifically for each school and/or districts, behavior intervention support team can help staff and families become more trauma-informed for the students and children they serve. After an initial meeting and in-depth analysis with the consultants, they will host a training to give the entire staff a feel for the behavior intervention support team philosophy and program. The consultants will recommend a plan of action to meet the desired goals. Behavior intervention support team in-home services are also provided, which can help parents find new ways to connect with children whom they have previously found difficult. A behavior intervention support team consultant makes regularly scheduled in-home or virtual visits to develop a tailored program to address the child's and family's needs. The parent will learn strategies to teach/model and learn how to problem-solve with their children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.8% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $55.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $333K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.