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SHADOW BUDDY FOUNDATION

EIN 48-1190112 LENEXA, KS

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Revenue 2024
$428,628
Expenses 2024
$399,512

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
14700 W 107TH ST STE 100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS TO HOSPITALS REGARDING ILLNESS, DISABILITY OR MEDICAL TREATMENTS.

  • THE FOUNDATION PROVIDED EDUCATIONAL TOOLS (MEDICAL CONDITION SPECIFIC SHADOW BUDDIES (DOLLS), RESOURCE GUIDES, BOOKS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS) TO APPROXIMATELY 178 HOSPITALS, CLINICS AND OTHER FACILITIES BENEFITING SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Expenses $354,804 · Revenue $125,533

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Margery L Postlethwait

    CEO/EXEC DIR

    Total calculated
    $102,341
    From this org
    $88,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,391
    Hours/week
    40
  • Scott Donaghue

    BOARD PRESID

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Wendy Diskin

    BOARD VICE P

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Sandra Watts

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • James Butler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tyler Cordel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jay Dee Krull

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Robert Hellweg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Michelle Pool

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jean Hansen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tanner Burns

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • David Shapiro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $428,628
    Expenses
    $399,512
    Contributions
    $69,396
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $337,530
    Expenses
    $366,890
    Contributions
    $56,907
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $327,630
    Expenses
    $286,212
    Contributions
    $243,674
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $385,152
    Expenses
    $340,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $182,069
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $322,319
    Expenses
    $282,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,663
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,735
    Expenses
    $349,589
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,853
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,199
    Expenses
    $327,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,675
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $310,424
    Expenses
    $285,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,953
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,164
    Expenses
    $455,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,340
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,701
    Expenses
    $444,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,368
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,265
    Expenses
    $445,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,648
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $342,975
    Expenses
    $271,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $208,401
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $287,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,069

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.