NKCH-Meritas Employee Emergency Assistance Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862731483
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- North Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8166912020
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,397
- Expenses
- $129,124
- Assets
- $45,551
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Chrostowski (President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Chrostowski (President)
- Julie Poorman (Treasurer)
- Molly Westhoff (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
To financially assist employees of NKC Health who are experiencing unexpected financial hardships.
What it reported doing in 2025
The North Kansas City Hospital-Meritas Employee Emergency Assistance Fund is designed to help employees who need financial assistance due to emergency situations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.