Kaleidoscope Fighting Lupus

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261177717
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Marylhurst, OR, USA
Phone
5039360187
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$91,214
Expenses
$225,930
Assets
$209,227
Liabilities
$744

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TOREY BROWNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • SUSAN PAYSENO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TOREY BROWNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • SUSAN PAYSENO (PRESIDENT)
  • CATHY EASON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to educate the public and to inform the medical community about lupus, to advocate for earlier life-saving diagnosis, to support people living with lupus and to collaborate with government and foundations to fund research toward a cure.

What it reported doing in 2024

Social media programs: kfl creates and maintains an extensive online presence that fulfills our mission to spread awareness of and information about lupus and lupus nephritis to a growing global audience. Kfl does this in a variety of ways, across diverse platforms such as facebook, instagram, twitter/x and threads, which altogether reach local, regional, national and global lupus communities with a monthly audience averaging from 80,000 to 100,000 individuals. Kfl's social media programming includes: lupus news - cutting-edge research and news focused on lupus and associated conditions, which are gleaned and collated from the latest primary medical sources; lupus facts, which are postings of practical and provocative information about lupus therapies, symptoms and statistics that are byproducts of the research kfl gathers in producing educational videos and peer-reviewed articles/blogs, and weekly inspirational posts for lupus patients and their care partners.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67

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: -147.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $152K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.