The Kempe Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841064295
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Phone
- 303-864-5300
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,520,663
- Expenses
- $2,481,015
- Assets
- $11,214,610
- Liabilities
- $157,239
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JON KRULJAC (PRESIDENT/CE)
- JULIA STONE (PRESIDENT/CH)
Highest reported compensation
- JON KRULJAC (PRESIDENT/CE): $181,960 total reported compensation
- JULIA STONE (PRESIDENT/CH): $158,743 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Kempe Foundation works with experts, advocates, and community members to advance solutions that improve the lives of children and families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grants and operating support to the kempe center - provide grants and other operational support to the kempe center for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect (kempe center) for costs not otherwise covered by the university of Colorado school of medicine, including medical and mental health clinical evaluation and treatment; the development, research and testing of new prevention programs and treatments; and training of medical and other professionals in the field.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.52; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.