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CONGREGATIONS FOR KIDS

EIN 82-4514208 MATTHEWS, NC

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Revenue 2025
$1,258,920
Expenses 2025
$1,193,571

Program services were 92.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
931 INDUSTRIAL DR

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 · 2025

Mission

Congregations for Kids (CFK) exists to mobilize Church and community to care for children & families connected to the foster care system. With other agencies, CFK empowers them to wrap around foster families, support youth in foster care, and appreciate social workers.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Congregations for Kids CFK exists to mobilize Church and community to care for children families connected to the foster care system With other agencies CFK empowers them to wrap around foster families support youth in foster care and support social workers

  • Through its Foster Pathway, Congregations for Kids equips and encourages foster and kinship parents caring for vulnerable children. In 2025, CFK recruited and trained 55 new foster parents and expanded support to families across multiple counties in Charlotte. CFK provided 426 meals and gifts to foster families and hosted connection and respite events attended by more than 400 caregivers and children. These efforts strengthen stability for families caring for children in foster care and reduce isolation by building supportive community around foster and kinship parents.

    Expenses $246,082

  • Through its Mentor and Serve pathways, CFK mobilizes volunteers to suppost youth in foster care and the professionals who serve them. In 2025, 368 volunteers contributed more than 1,600 service hours through programs that encouraged social workers, supported foster families, and strengthened community engagement. CFKs Mentor Match program also continued to grow, surpassing 40 active mentoring relationships connecting youth in foster care with committed adult mentors who provide consistent support and guidance during critical developmental years.

    Expenses $188,709

  • Through its Give Pathway, CFK operates the Landing Platform, which connects community members to urgent tangible needs for children and families involved in foster care. In 2025, the organization mobilized volunteers to meet more than 1,023 requests valued at over $97,000, providing essential items such as clothing, beds, diapers, and other necessities. The platform also welcomed 94 new community volunteers who responded to needs and helped ensure children entering care had timely access to basic resources.

    Expenses $126,933

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gen Bowden

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $95,000
    From this org
    $95,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nick Boardman

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tammera Nelson

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charlie Workman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rob Kelly

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rekita McDuffie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bobbette Willis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthias Fairley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Will Huff

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicole Taylor

    Former Exec Dir

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,258,920
    Expenses
    $1,193,571
    Contributions
    $1,314,395
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $913,804
    Expenses
    $863,406
    Contributions
    $268,161
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $913,804
    Expenses
    $863,406
    Contributions
    $268,161
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,085,184
    Expenses
    $672,745
    Contributions
    $259,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $646,198
    Expenses
    $521,469
    Contributions
    $311,525
    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
    $702,691
    Expenses
    $407,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $829,541

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $529,496
    Expenses
    $234,602
    Assets (EOY)
    $519,501

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $330,965
    Expenses
    $201,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,725

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $173,645
    Expenses
    $98,509
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,136

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.