The Kellan Ford Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871607261
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Landale, PA, USA
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
American Red Cross

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,715
Expenses
$11,148
Assets
$297,905

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristin Kane Ford (President)

People named in this filing

  • Kristin Kane Ford (President)
  • Michael Ford Jr (Treasurer)
  • Kelly Shacklett (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 charitable advancement of education and science; specifically to raise awareness and funds to support childhood cancer research holistic cancer care palliative care and hospice care with the goal to improve and support the lives of children and their families living with a cancer diagnosis.

What it reported doing in 2025

Holistic Care Kits & Therapy: Through the Philadelphia Unions Kick Childhood Cancer annual event we provided holistic care backpacks with at home support items for children to continue therapy at home. These kits came with the opportunity to have up to 500 in supportive therapy by a licensed professional in a modality that fits them best.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 27
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 18.4%; rating input score 18
  • Program expense ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 42

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 56.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 26.72; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -42.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -46.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 18.4% of revenue deployed · 42.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.