Fetal Health Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200837174
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Littleton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9802240398
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,327
- Expenses
- $88,874
- Assets
- $69,281
- Liabilities
- $3,472
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lonnie Somers (Chair & Founder)
- Michelle Somers (Secretary & CFO)
- Mary Beth Martin (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
The Fetal Health Foundation's mission is to provide support, provide information, fund research, increase awareness and be an outlet for leading medical information pertaining to fetal syndromes. We are all about arming families and healthcare providers with information and helping to save babies' lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the Brianna Marie Memorial Research Grant is to improve health outcomes for pregnancies and infants affected by various fetal syndromes, with particular interest to fetal lung syndromes such as fetal hydrops. By stimulating and supporting interdisciplinary research from within the maternal/fetal medicine field focused on fetal lung issues, the Research Grant will subsequently improve successful fetal development and the overall health of the newborn(s).
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.