The Keith Dawson Foundation
Legal name: Keith Dawson Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831861294
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Darby, PA, USA
- Phone
- (610) 809-9790
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,553
- Expenses
- $99,192
- Assets
- $34,359
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Miriam Hilliard (President)
People named in this filing
- Miriam Hilliard (President)
- Keith Hilliard Dawson (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
To support those affected by Leukemia, Lymphoma raise awareness and promote a healthier lifestyle.
What it reported doing in 2025
Holiday Bag Program - Provide Holiday Bags annually to Hospital Community Partner/Partners Blood Cancer Units for hospitalized Blood Cancer Patients facing the New Year with a Cancer diagnosis. These bags include, (but not limited to) warm socks, and/or slippers, warm hats, adult coloring books, colored pencils, pens/pencils, and sharpener, sensitive skin lotion, lip balm, puzzle books, card/letter, head wrap/scarves/turbans, and other mental well being activities, lemon ginger candy/lemon ginger tea.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 50.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.