Kidneys Quest Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260494828
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
San Fernando, CA, USA
Phone
8185216348
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Kidney Disease

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,530
Expenses
$97,889
Assets
$14,254
Liabilities
$1,963

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAROLYN YBARRA LEMOS (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • CAROLYN YBARRA LEMOS (President & CEO)
  • CAROLYN YBARRA LEMOS (CFO)
  • IRA HART (BOARD MEMBER)

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

The organization is committed to educating and providing people with knowledge about the choices that are available. The organization focuses on kidney patients when they don't know how to get to the next step and helps alleviate the fear and stress of living with kidney issues.

What it reported doing in 2025

Emergency back pack program: the program was created to provide a start-up on emergency supplies and educate kidney patients on disaster and emergency readiness while living with a kidney disorder. The program works to help educate kidney patients about being prepared for emergency situations and helps provide the resource services they may need within the community to survive.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
  • 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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 55.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.