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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CARE LAB.

Totals

Total revenue
$508,832
Total expenses
$513,987
Contributions and grants received
$368,119
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$140,713
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,814
Total liabilities, end of year
$11,053
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
-$9,239
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$436,451
Management and general expenses
$77,536
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$436,451

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $368,119

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Bipartisan Policy Center

    total $4,688 · related or exempt $4,688

  • 2b · Program service revenue: George Washington Univ.

    total $94,275 · related or exempt $94,275

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Rebuild Congress Initiati

    total $41,750 · related or exempt $41,750

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $264,288 · program services $211,430 · management and general $52,858

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $60,000 · program services $48,000 · management and general $12,000

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $8,838 · program services $7,070 · management and general $1,768

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $24,704 · program services $19,763 · management and general $4,941

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $1,055 · management and general $1,055

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $313 · management and general $313

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $50 · management and general $50

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $133 · program services $106 · management and general $27

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,121 · program services $2,497 · management and general $624

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $18,098 · program services $14,478 · management and general $3,620

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $1,399 · program services $1,119 · management and general $280

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Program services

    total $131,988 · program services $131,988

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,414 · end of year $1,813

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $90,275 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $1

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $39,951 · end of year $11,053

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $52,738 · end of year -$9,239

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Bringing people and ideas together across divides, to create a care-centered world. Care Lab is women-founded and run by a team with deep international, congressional, research, and advocacy experience. After decades of work building bridges between the United States, Cuba, and other Latin American countries, Care Lab is turning knowledge gained about trust, listening, and the curation of transformative experiences to bear on the urgent challenges facing the United States. Using lessons learned from scientific research, case studies, and decades of bridge-building work, Care Lab brings people together for bipartisan experiences that build common ground and support the caring and collaborative approach we need to ensure the well-being of our families, our country, and the planet.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Care Lab activity is an unprecedented effort to build a resilient, caring, and bipartisan core of leaders on Capitol Hill and beyond, creating a new model for US Congressional field tours, designing unconventional professional development opportunities for Congressional staff, and using the science of care to create safe spaces for difficult conversations and deep encounters with constituents.

  • Produced 'Three Dinners' programs followed by extensive assessments, ran two sessions of 'CareLab 201', launched alumni network of 'Three Dinners' alums, and designed models for an in-state network.

    Expenses $436,451

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Sarah Stephens

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $166,200
    From this org
    $166,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Justine Williams

    Managing Director

    Total calculated
    $98,058
    From this org
    $98,058
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sarah Stephens

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Justine Williams

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sarah Bruno

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mariakarla Nodarse

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Selam Chale

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Schedule J

Itemized on Schedule J with no Part VII listing of the same name on this return:

  • Sarah Stephens

    Executive Director

    Schedule J breakdown

    Base
    $166,200
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $166,200

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
7 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202521279349301027

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