Employee First Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463353666
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Coppell, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9725384578
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,192
- Expenses
- $82,681
- Assets
- $192,805
- Liabilities
- $5,700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LASTISHA BRANDON (PRESIDENT (END:06/25))
- JACKIE HARPER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CLAUDINE TUDGAY (PRESIDENT (START:06/25))
People named in this filing
- JOHN MARAZIO (CHAIR (END:08/25))
- KRISTIN SCHWERTNER (TREASURER)
- STEPHANIE LIND (SECRETARY)
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
To provide disaster and emergency hardship relief to persons, including employees of the container store, inc. And their families, and to engage in other charitable and educational purposes, provided that such purposes of the corporation are only as permitted an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (the code).
What it reported doing in 2025
Emergency relief - the organization provides grants to employees experiencing unforeseen emergencies like a major medical situation, a catastrophic event, or other grave challenges that they are not financially prepared to deal with.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.