Gloves 4 Grief Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923170141
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Irvine, CA, USA
Phone
9495608967
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$126,989
Expenses
$66,255
Assets
$82,848
Liabilities
$531

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TERRA PICKETT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CO-FOUN)

People named in this filing

  • TERRA PICKETT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CO-FOUN)
  • MICHELLE MONTGOMERY (DIRECTOR)
  • MARIE BRANDON (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

Gloves for grief offers a supportive community and healing experiences for those who have experienced unexpected loss.

What it reported doing in 2025

Box and breathe wellness events (public and private) gloves for grief's box & breathe wellness events provide trauma-informed, movement-based grief support for individuals and families navigating loss. These events integrate physical activity, breathwork, and guided emotional processing to support mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Participants engage in structured boxing-inspired movement paired with intentional breathing techniques and facilitated reflection. The program is designed to help individuals safely release stress, regulate emotions, and process grief in a healthy, non-verbal way. Group discussion and peer connection are incorporated to reduce isolation and normalize the grief experience. Led by certified boxing instructors, therapists, and grief educators.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.5%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72

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: 47.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.5% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.