Kidneys for Kids

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882341457
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Bay City, MI, USA
Phone
9894936111
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,859
Expenses
$57,386
Assets
$526
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brian Martindale (Executive Director)
  • Jamie Nichols (Board of Directors President)
  • Kasey Pfaff (Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Brian Martindale (Executive Director)
  • Jamie Nichols (Board of Directors President)
  • Molly Gerken-Ruane (Board Secretary)

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 to recruit or motivate adults to become living kidney donors to children nationwide. As well as adults in Michigan. And we provide grants up to$1000 per family for costs not covered by insurance. As well as being a trusted resource for kidney health education.

What it reported doing in 2025

We have now helped to match 18 adult living kidney donors with kids. And we helped to match our first adult in Michigan with a living kidney donor. We are voting members of the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network, giving us the ability now to work directly with hospitals in a professional manner. We founded our own Tv network on Roku, which we use to give further exposure to stories of children and adults needing a kidney transplant. And we founded a kidney health program called Healthy Minds-Healthy Bodies with a local health organization, to improve our communities kidney health.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 57

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 49.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 61.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 57.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.