Kids R First
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541905551
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Reston, VA, USA
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,650
- Expenses
- $96,512
- Assets
- $39,325
- Liabilities
- $4,182
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Ungerer (Founder/CEO)
People named in this filing
- Susan Ungerer (Founder/CEO)
- Simran Ratra (Board Chairperson)
- Scott Booher (CFO)
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
Provide school supplies for underprivileged students (K-12)
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided custom orders of purchased school supplies for students whose families qualify for Free and Reduced priced meals in the Fairfax and London County Public Schools in Northern Virginia .
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
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: 5.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.