Kidz2Leaders

Legal name: Kidz2leaders Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
582485924
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Marietta, GA, USA
Phone
7709777751
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,516,625
Expenses
$1,652,955
Assets
$779,638
Liabilities
$174,428

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTINA CUMMINGS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTINA CUMMINGS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $89,200 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kidz2Leaders exists to break the cycle of incarceration by providing stability, opportunity and a Christian community for children of inmates. Vision. In 2009, we launched the Interns4Tomorrow program to provide our oldest campers with professional development training and local internships. In 2010, our first class of campers graduated from our programs, leading to the creation of our alumni community. To this day, 99% of our graduates are living free from incarceration. By 2018, our program had grown so large that we expanded to second session of Camp Hope, creating Cornerstone for younger campers, and Leadership Camp for the teens in our programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Camp hope: camp hope is a six-day, overnight camp that gives prisoners' children who live in the metro-atlanta area a week filled with love, activities, and fellowship. The purpose is to develop and foster trusting christian relationships with children of inmates by engaging them in a fun, worshipful and a safe environment. The lower camp, called cornerstone, is our entry point into these kids and their families' lives, and only accepts first-year attendees at the 4th or 5th grade level. Once children attend camp, we work with them throughout their childhood and youth to change the direction of their lives. We offer ongoing opportunities at camp for accepting christ and for development of servant leadership skills. The leadership training academy (lta) portion of camp hope is by invitation for those campers who successfully complete cornerstone and consists of rising seventh, eighth and ninth graders. Lta builds on the foundation set forth in cornerstone. This camp engages corporate leaders, motivational speakers, and professional athletes to speak to, work with and encourage our campers to become christian servant leaders. Lta campers participate in team building exercises to reinforce the leadership topics of the day. When campers graduate from lta, they are eligible to serve as teen counselors to campers. They can also progress to cabin leaders and paid summer camp staff. The camp and other programs are no-charge to campers and camper-turned-counselors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.