Kaylan Strongs Fight Like a Warrior Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843521203
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Kapolei, HI, USA
Phone
8084287633
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,167
Expenses
$4,702
Assets
$3,110
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michela Haywood (President)
  • Margaret Stevens (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Michela Haywood (President)
  • Margaret Stevens (Vice President)
  • Cortney Nadig (Secratary)

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 help Hawaii families effected by DIPG and Childhood Brain Cancer with support emotionally and financially. Also to raise funds for DIPG research.

What it reported doing in 2025

We were able to help 2 families with $500 and 1 famly with celebration of life help. We had a family attend our annual Kaylan Strong's Fun Run in May to bring more awareness to the effects of Childhood Brain Cancer. This year we Memebership in CAC2 Coalition Against Childhood Cancer to be a part of raising more funds for research and awareness. Sent a family to a bereaved family to a retreat in Kansas City. For Christmas we blessed families that were stuck in the hospital for the holiday with gift cards and the nurses with some goodies for being there for them. This year we were able to do that at three of our biggest hospitals here in Hawaii and the Pedatric Radiation with gifts for kids finishing raditation. This year we expanded to six hospitals when delivering presents to the pedartric kids.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.3%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 34.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.