KinderMourn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561221194
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7043762580
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,141,287
- Expenses
- $1,118,529
- Assets
- $1,891,466
- Liabilities
- $25,074
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kaela O'Donnell (Executive Dir.): $125,649 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
KinderMourn offers individual counseling, couples counseling, and grief support groups to bereaved families at little to no cost. Clients self-identify what they feel comfortable with paying for individual counseling services, with over half of the organizations clients receiving support free of charge, and all grief support groups provided free of charge. Since 1978, KinderMourn has walked alongside countless families seeking healing after grieving an unthinkable loss. The organization strives to create a safe haven where bereaved families can find refuge and KinderMourn continues to serve as the only grief support organization in the Charlotte area offering these crucial mental health services for grieving children, teens, and parents.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helping the Hurt Outreach ProgramBereavement support to children and teens who cannot access KinderMourn's in-house support services due to economic factors or transportation issues. Grief services, including individual counseling and support groups, are offered in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and area neighborhood community centers without fees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.7% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $837K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.