Kidz in Motion Training Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770610114
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Black River Falls, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4075954464
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Automotive Safety
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $230,601
- Expenses
- $176,319
- Assets
- $204,239
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAMARA FRANKS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JAMES SAVAGE (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TAMARA FRANKS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JAMES SAVAGE (CO-PRESIDENT)
- LAWRENCE W JOHNSTON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kidz in motion was organized to foster child passsenger safety through education, best practices and technological advances through an annual educational and networking conference. The annual conference known as the kim conference, provides numerous educational sessions to interested parties including parents and caregivers. Child restraint manufacturers, vehicle manufacturers and child passenger safety professionals have the opportunity to meet discuss concerns and educate each other to advance the correct use of child restraint devices.
What it reported doing in 2025
The education provided by the kids in motion training conference provides or affords the attendees the opportunity to learn new skills in a variety of areas in the field of child passenger safety. Continuing education credits are provided for those sesssions which qualify. Attendees provide education obtained to state and local communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.