For The Win Foundation
Legal name: For the Win Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473875560
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Naperville, IL, US
- Phone
- 8434223501
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,102
- Expenses
- $40,718
- Assets
- $21,325
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOROTHY BROWN (President)
- ELIZABETH BROWN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DOROTHY BROWN (President)
- ELIZABETH BROWN (Vice President)
- LINDSAY HARRELL (Treasurer)
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 For The Win Foundation supports the fight against myelogenous leukemia, raising funds to advance research and continually improve survival rates for patients around the world until that day when this life threatening disease is eradicated.
What it reported doing in 2025
To raise money for fight against myelogenus leukemia
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -473.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.