John a Jack Kolbush Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824262640
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Savannah, GA, USA
- Phone
- 8433386139
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,948
- Expenses
- $33,794
- Assets
- $195,967
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Janet Kolbush (President)
- Mark Kolbush (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Janet Kolbush (President)
- Mark Kolbush (Vice President)
- Heather Newsom (Board Trustee)
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 support families that have a child battling cancer with the financial, educational and emotional support needed to cope with their child's life threatening disease. To provide bereavement support in the event a family looses their child to cancer. To assist programs to help make a child's life as normal as possible during this critical time.
What it reported doing in 2025
To support families that have a child battling cancer with financial assistance, educational services and emotional care. In the event of a lose of child, bereavement support is extended to the family.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.8; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -41.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.3% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.