Kringle Cause Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334158964
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4809343632
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,596
- Expenses
- $4,600
- Assets
- $996
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey L Biggs (Founder / Executive Director)
- Jeffrey Peterson (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeffrey L Biggs (Founder / Executive Director)
- Jeffrey Peterson (President)
- Jamie Lovell (Secretary)
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 Kringle Cause provides life and employment skills training for adults with cognitive and physical disabilities through the creation of handcrafted toys and gifts, offering meaningful work opportunities that build independence and confidence. These items are delivered year-round by trained volunteer Santas and Mrs. Clauses to children with disabilities, children facing serious medical challenges, and children in foster care or unstable living conditions. The organization integrates skills development, purposeful work, and compassionate outreach to serve both program participants and recipient children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Santa Training Program Development: This program prepares volunteer Santas and Mrs. Clauses to deliver handcrafted gifts created by participants in the organization's Workshop 48 program, ensuring a meaningful connection between skills training and charitable outreach. The program serves children with cognitive and physical disabilities, children facing serious or life-threatening medical conditions in hospitals, and children in foster care, shelters, or unstable living environments. During the year, the organization purchased training materials and resources to develop a structured program focused on communication, sensitivity, and appropriate engagement with diverse populations of children. This work established the foundation for a volunteer delivery network that supports the organization's mission by ensuring that gifts are delivered in a thoughtful, compassionate, and impactful manner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.4%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.4% of revenue deployed · 5.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $247 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.