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TEARS FOUNDATION

EIN 45-0500497 PUYALLUP, WA

Revenue 2024
$534,094
Expenses 2024
$798,817

Program services were 67.6% 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
11102 SUNRISE BLVD E

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 COMPASSIONATELY ASSIST BEREAVED PARENTS WITH EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES WHEN THEIR PRECIOUS CHILD DIES.

  • THE TEARS FOUNDATION OFFERS FREE SUPPORT GROUPS INDIVIDUAL PEER COMPANIONS MEMORIAL EVENTS AND ONSITE BEREAVEMENT CENTERS WITH RESOURCES FOR THE COMMUNITY AND BEREAVED FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE DEATH OF A CHILD. NINE BEREAVEMENT CENTERS OFFERED ONSITE SUPPORT COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS. OVER 10,000 INDIVIDUALS HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT THROUGH THESE SERVICES IN 2023.

    Expenses $375,455

  • THE TEARS FOUNDATION PAYS FOR INFANT AND CHILD MARKERS CURRENT CHILD FUNERAL EXPENSES AND UNEXPECTED CHILD FUNERAL EXPENSES. FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE FAMILIES WERE ASSISTED WITH THEIR CHILDS FUNERAL AND MARKER EXPENSES IN 2023.

    Expenses $164,675

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.

  • Allen Shuh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bethany Davison

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Steffaro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Slack

    PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIREC

    Total calculated
    $115,100
    From this org
    $115,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

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
    $534,094
    Expenses
    $798,817
    Contributions
    $312,724
    Grants paid
    $243,140
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $673,869
    Expenses
    $904,980
    Contributions
    $370,357
    Grants paid
    $179,303
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $689,344
    Expenses
    $913,672
    Contributions
    $443,969
    Grants paid
    $189,721

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
    $809,369
    Expenses
    $722,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,130,921

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $666,447
    Expenses
    $699,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,022,349

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $209,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,800

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