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CLAIRES ARMY INC

EIN 46-3056024 CHARLOTTE, NC

Revenue 2024
$602,955
Expenses 2024
$685,693

Program services were 77.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P40
Classification
1200
Street
7536 SWINFORD PL

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

CLAIRES ARMY STRIVES TO ACT AS GODS HANDS AND FEET FOR FAMILIES FIGHTING CHILDHOOD CANCER BY SUPPORTING THEIR DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES, ALLOWING THEM TO PUT TIME AND FOCUS ON THEIR CHILD.

  • Claire Package Every patient and his/her family facing a childhood cancer diagnosis at Novant Health: Hemby Childrens Hospital and Atrium Health: Levine Childrens Hospital receives a Claire Package. This useful utility tote contains essentials such as towels, a bathmat, plastic utensils, laundry and dishwashing supplies, bottled water, and more. It also contains $200 in gasoline and grocery gift cards to offer immediate financial relief. The Claire Package is delivered within 48 hours of receiving the diagnosis by the patients hospital social worker.

    Expenses $79,544 · Grants $53,615

  • Meal Program Delivery of FREE dinners to childhood cancer patients and their families who are receiving inpatient care at Novant Health: Hemby Childrens Hospital and Atrium Health: Levine Childrens Hospital. These meals are delivered 5 nights per week to: provide an alternative to hospital food; serve enough food for the entire family; and remove the financial and logistical burden of dinners during hospital stays. Claires Army partners with local restaurants and skilled volunteers to maintain and enhance this program for hundreds of families, annually.

    Expenses $111,924 · Grants $90,317

  • Emergency Assistance We direct bill payments on behalf of patient families who are suffering financially due to cancer treatment. These include but are not limited to rent/mortgage, utilities, vehicle repairs, lodging assistance, funeral expenses, and grocery assistance. We receive and distribute these payments via referral from hospital providers who determine eligibility and need on a case-by-case basis for each family.

    Expenses $339,610 · Grants $298,645

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.

  • Ryan Laderer

    President (Board Chair)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aaron Bock

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Luisa Romero

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jen Harman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Flynn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily A Ratliff

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $81,826
    From this org
    $81,826
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jill Monroe

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah DiFranco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Griffin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenny Ponstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Ratliff

    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
    $602,955
    Expenses
    $685,693
    Contributions
    $530,487
    Grants paid
    $444,649
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $622,124
    Expenses
    $552,556
    Contributions
    $512,773
    Grants paid
    $355,168
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $545,893
    Expenses
    $431,195
    Contributions
    $498,462
    Grants paid
    $284,815

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
    $446,270
    Expenses
    $394,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $665,226

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $516,836
    Expenses
    $358,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $611,768

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $378,521
    Expenses
    $312,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $466,540

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $278,875
    Expenses
    $148,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $388,165

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Kevin Ratliff
Mailing address
PO Box 78571Charlotte NC 282717036
Website
www.ClairesArmy.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

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