Because We Care Foundation
Legal name: We Care Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352595864
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Altoona, PA, United States
- Phone
- (814) 515-3472
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,776
- Expenses
- $51,990
- Assets
- $160,923
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT L BILGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT L BILGER (PRESIDENT)
- JAMES P FRANK (BOARD MEMBER)
- STEPHEN C GILDEA (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Because We Care Foundation’s mission is to create opportunities for positive in-person interactions between children and first responders to overcome fears and stereotypes, fostering positive relationships between them. Because We Care Foundation offers multiple community programs to further our goal to foster positive relationships and interactions between our fire, police, and EMS departments and the children and families of the communities they serve. Over $229,000 in funds administered by the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation has been utilized to support our programs. The success and funding of our programs would not be possible without the generous support of our local communities and our donors. Teddy Bear Distribution Because We Care facilitates positive interactions between first responder’s and children in our communities by providing personalized teddy bears to law...
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide funds for equipment to healthcare providers to enhance or improve treatment of individuals meeting the prescribed purpose and to provide funds to maintain facilities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.2%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 65.2% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.