Susie Qs Kids Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832545476
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Warren, MI, USA
Phone
2482206846
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$396,342
Expenses
$298,275
Assets
$243,694
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr Mary Welsh (President Co-Founder Board Member)
  • James McBride (Vice President Board Member)

People named in this filing

  • Dr Mary Welsh (President Co-Founder Board Member)
  • Joseph Welsh (Treasurer Co-Founder Board Member)
  • Ashley Welsh (Secretary Board Member)

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

Susie Qs Kids partners with established non-profits to distribute our comfort bags to kids in their programs such as hospitals shelters foster care and agencies that help those grieving the loss of loved ones. Participants from businesses churches local groups and individuals provide material support and our wonderful volunteers make it happen. Through our speaking engagements bag stuffing events and donation drives our Kids in Philanthropy approach of Kids Helping Kids provides kids with an opportunity to help focus their efforts on good in the community and enhance their emotional connection to other kids in need. We strive to address the physical emotional and mental health of kids giving and receiving through our comfort bag program as we provide comfort bags to kids in need one bag at a time and create some normalcy relief and support during what can be an incredibly stressful time for a child. Together we can make a difference in the life of a child.

What it reported doing in 2025

Susie Qs Kids assembles and distributes Comfort Bags containing essential items such as blankets hygiene products sensory tools and inspirational materials to children and young adults experiencing illness loss displacement or crisis. Bags are distributed through trusted community partners including schools healthcare providers first responders shelters and nonprofit organizations to ensure safe appropriate and trauma-informed delivery. Youth engagement opportunities including service learning and volunteer projects are incorporated when appropriate and supervised allowing young people to participate in community service while reinforcing empathy leadership and social responsibility.

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 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.
  • 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 36; 36th 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: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $259K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.