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KIDS MATTER INC

EIN 39-1988488 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$1,846,249
Expenses 2024
$1,362,992

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
1850 N MARTIN LUTHER KING DR STE 20

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

THE MISSION OF KIDS MATTER INC. IS TO HELP ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN HEAL AND THRIVE, TO BRING VOLUNTEER ENERGY AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO FOSTER AND KINSHIP CHILDREN, AND TO APPLY LESSONS LEARNED FROM HELPING CHILDREN HEAL TO PREVENTING FURTHER CHILD ABUSE.

  • THE FOSTERING HEALING PROGRAM HELPS CHILD CRIME VICTIMS INCLUDING CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED ABUSE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT OR WHO ARE SURVIVORS OF HOMICIDE OF A PARENT OR CAREGIVER. FAMILY CONNECTIONS PROVIDES FAMILY SUPPORT AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TO EXTENDED KIN CAREGIVERS, INCLUDING A GRANDFAMILY SUPPORT GROUP. KIDS MATTER HAS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM TO PROVIDE TRAUMA SUPPORT, FREE LEGAL SERVICES, FREE COUNSELING, SAFETY PLANNING, IN-HOME VISITS AND OTHER SUPPORT TO OVER 2,500 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ANNUALLY. MILWAUKEE'S COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (CASA) PROGRAM IS WHOLLY MANAGED BY KIDS MATTER INC. EACH YEAR HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN VICTIMIZED BY ABUSE OR NEGLECT ARE ASSIGNED A CASA VOLUNTEER BY A JUDGE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE CHILDREN'S BEST INTERESTS IN OBTAINING A SAFE, PERMANENT HOME OR TO TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENT LIVING.

    Expenses $1,113,865

  • FREE CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, HOMICIDE, LOSS OR ABSENCE OF PARENT. ASSISTANCE KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE WITHIN EXTENDED KINSHIP FAMILIES AND OUTSIDE OF FOSTER CARE.

    Expenses $168,219

  • FOSTERING HOPE. COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS DONATE GOODS AND SERVICES TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN CRISIS. IN 2024, $575,226 IN IN-KIND DONATIONS AND DONATED VOLUNTEER SERVICES PROVIDED EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN IN NEED, SUPPORTED POSITIVE EXPERIENCES FOR CHILDREN, AND EASED THE BURDENS OF COVID BY CAREGIVING FAMILIES.

  • OTHER PROGRAMSKINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT/NAVIGATION. FREE SUPPORT GROUPS, LEGAL EDUCATION, EVENTS, NAVIGATION OF AVAILABLE SERVICES FOR KINSHIP CAREGIVING FAMILIES. HOPE FOR CHILD HOMICIDE SURVIVORS. NEW GRANT SUPPORTED PROGRAM TO PROVIDE TIMELY SUPPORT, COUNSELING AND SERVICES TO CHILDREN WHO LOSE A PARENT OR CAREGIVER TO HOMICIDE.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • SIBYLLE TASKER JD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS FRENN JD

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER MCGAVER MBA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANCISCO MARTORELL MSW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT DRIES PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLINE SPONGBERG JD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN CONWELL JD

    EXECUTIVE DIREC

    Total calculated
    $98,383
    From this org
    $98,383
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,846,249
    Expenses
    $1,362,992
    Contributions
    $1,833,289
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,485,116
    Expenses
    $1,207,666
    Contributions
    $1,483,809
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,054,085
    Expenses
    $940,714
    Contributions
    $1,053,679
    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
    $1,268,623
    Expenses
    $1,026,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $786,501

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,090,274
    Expenses
    $928,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $526,304

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,090,274
    Expenses
    $928,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $526,304

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $996,399
    Expenses
    $916,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,604

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $937,831
    Expenses
    $869,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $246,973

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $724,768
    Expenses
    $687,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,215

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $461,582
    Expenses
    $481,472
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,939

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $394,968
    Expenses
    $376,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,097

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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.