There with Care

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680606330
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boulder, CO, USA
Phone
3034472273
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,570,740
Expenses
$2,407,602
Assets
$2,130,873
Liabilities
$218,817

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAURIE PETERSON (PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERAT)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAURIE PETERSON (PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERAT): $195,000 total reported compensation
  • PAULA DUPRE PESMEN (DIRECTOR): $58,117 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

There with care serves families with critically ill children by providing basic needs programs that offset financial, economic, and emotional stresses that families experience during a medical crisis.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2024, with the help of over 300 volunteers, there with care served 970 children and families facing critical illness (3880 individuals). The value of the volunteer service in 2024 was $147,698 for 6,579 hours. The average cost to serve a family in 2023 was $2,809 and we serve approximately 180 active cases per day. With the help of thousands of individuals and businesses, the community has come together to provide support and care to each family, meeting them where they are, and easing their day-to-day burdens giving them more time with their children. Social workers from hospital partner agencies refer families in greatest need to there with care.see additional program information on schedule o.programmatic areas: our program offerings include:- food security: ensures a family has access to warm, nutritious, and easily prepared meals with grocery deliveries, easy meal care bags, restaurant gift cards, and uber eats gift cards.-housing stability: ensures a family's household is clean and safe by providing cleaning products and other household supplies. Helps alleviate stresses related to home finances, including rent or mortgage, utilities, phone and internet bills, appliance or home repair, and hotel stays.- transportation assistance: ensures a family can safely and reliably take their child to and from treatments, school, and activities, visit their child at the hospital if inpatient, and maintain their vehicle for travel. Includes gas cards, uber or lyft gift cards, bus passes, and costs associated with car payments, insurance, repair and maintenance, tires, and infant car seats.- patient and family essentials: ensures the basic needs of all family members are met by providing clothing, strollers and cribs, activity bags, books, toys and games, and toiletry items as well as professional assistance including family or individual counseling.diagnoses areas: pediatric oncologylevel 4 nicu*organ transplantother trauma, accidentmental health*these facilities are equipped to care for the most complex neonatal conditions and the sickest and smallest newborns, no matter their gestational age at birth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
  • 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 92.9%; 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: 6.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 15 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.