The Butterfly Children Fund
Legal name: The Butterfly Children Fund Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812541996
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Phone
- (303) 523-4297
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,173
- Expenses
- $106,293
- Assets
- $139,448
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSIE WARTA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUSIE WARTA (PRESIDENT)
- MATT WARTA (TREASURER)
- KATIE WAFER (PRES ELECT)
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 honor the original commitment to support EB families through the EB Family Assistance Fund; to continue to host Camp Spirit Colorado each February; and to now utilize a portion of funds raised each year to support the groundbreaking research taking place in the EB medical community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fundraiser to support the children's hospital Colorado foundation family assistance fund adn the eb endowment fund to benefit families with epidermolysis bullosa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for 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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.