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KAREN WELLINGTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LIVING WITH BREAST

EIN 26-3768567 CINCINNATI, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$1,170,673
Expenses 2024
$1,348,547

Program services were 67.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G30
Classification
1000
Street
3825 EDWARDS RD STE 103

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 103). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

We put fun on the calendars of women and families with breast cancer by sending them on special vacations, relaxing spa days, dinners out, concerts, and other fun-only activities.

  • At KWF we work to put FUN on the calendars for women and families LIVING with breast cancer. From vacations to spa days, backstage passes and sporting events, trips to the zoo, and nights on the town, no single gift of FUN is the same. In 2024 alone, we gave over 1,119 total gifts which provided much needed respite and mental health breaks from breast cancer. As KWF increases giving, we will send about 100+ women on vacations, 300+ women to spas and other gifts of fun, and 700 Lemons to Lemonade FUN boxes. Approximately 75% of those gifts are in-kind donated experiences - including donated vacation home rentals, donated spa days gifts by various spas throughout the U.S., donated concert and sports tickets and more. In short, we leverage donations in putting KWF experiences together for KWF recipients. These experiences are designed to help women, who are actively battling breast cancer, live life to the fullest. 100 % of our recipients have stated that they have had to cancel plans due to treatment. The mental health benefits of having something good to look forward to have been proven to energize and renew them, encouraging them to stay positive during the darkest of times. KWFs mission is to give to all who are nominated and reach more women and families in the coming years. Around 30% of our gifts are the last experiences these families will have, which is why many families choose KWF as a beneficiary of their memorial funds. We call these gifts FUNds. Our list of FUNds keeps growing and while we are saddened at the loss of life, we are privileged to help families heal through paying it forward. Many of those families stay involved with KWF by helping us deliver FUN to others.

    Expenses $912,961 · Grants $618,717

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.

  • Katie Alsip Elbisser

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $99,500
    From this org
    $99,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kent Wellington

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Terri Karsten

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chad Neiter

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robby Wellington

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marie Arcuri

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lori Falke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Connie Laug

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Reder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Liz Knecht

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tashawna Otabil

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Smitherman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katherine Nero

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Molly Flanagan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Pellegrini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Breanna Bovara

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Amrine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kecia Benneth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Liam McMillian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,170,673
    Expenses
    $1,348,547
    Contributions
    $1,197,306
    Grants paid
    $618,717
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,113,655
    Expenses
    $1,163,054
    Contributions
    $1,130,362
    Grants paid
    $666,421
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $900,934
    Expenses
    $877,654
    Contributions
    $762,638
    Grants paid
    $401,672

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
    $700,881
    Expenses
    $648,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,189
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $613,190
    Expenses
    $435,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $570,520
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $587,708
    Expenses
    $461,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $383,745
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $605,386
    Expenses
    $634,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,783
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $575,977
    Expenses
    $459,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $294,976
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $348,148
    Expenses
    $329,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,192
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,479
    Expenses
    $192,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,282
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $192,321
    Expenses
    $156,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,451
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $117,934
    Expenses
    $134,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,049
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $89,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,432

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.