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COMFORT CASES INC

EIN 46-4044090 GAITHERSBURG, MD

Revenue 2024
$6,400,924
Expenses 2024
$5,416,126

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
9300 GAITHER RD

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

COMFORT CASES WAS FOUNDED ON A MISSION TO PROVIDE COMFORT AND SUPPORT TO THE YOUTH ENTERING THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. COMFORT CASES PROVIDES CASES FILLED WITH NEW ESSENTIAL AND COMFORT ITEMS FOR YOUTH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CHILDREN ENTERING FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. COMFORT CASES PROVIDES CASES FILLED WITH NEW ESSENTIAL AND COMFORT ITEMS FOR YOUTH.

  • COMFORT CASES ARE BACKPACKS FILLED WITH COMFORT AND PERSONAL CARE ITEMS FOR YOUTH ENTERING THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. TYPICALLY, CHILDREN ARE GIVEN A TRASH BAG TO PACK UP THEIR BELONGINGS WHEN THEY ARE REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES. COMFORT CASES PROVIDES THE ESSENTIALS FOR A CHILDS FIRST FEW DAYS IN FOSTER CARE. SINCE INCEPTION COMFORT CASES HAS PROVIDED OVER 200,000 COMFORT CASES TO YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE.

    Expenses $4,841,315 · Grants $3,407,714

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.

  • ROBERT SCHEER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $343,766
    From this org
    $301,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,565
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $301,201
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $42,565
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $343,766

  • JILL ROSS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREW LEWIS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACY JACOBS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLYNNE MCWILLIAMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINE FREELAND

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIM JOHNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,400,924
    Expenses
    $5,416,126
    Contributions
    $6,370,291
    Grants paid
    $3,407,714
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,827,229
    Expenses
    $3,855,206
    Contributions
    $4,767,516
    Grants paid
    $2,158,968
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,998,176
    Expenses
    $2,247,319
    Contributions
    $4,016,071
    Grants paid
    $854,864
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,998,176
    Expenses
    $2,247,319
    Contributions
    $4,016,071
    Grants paid
    $854,864

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
    $2,448,830
    Expenses
    $3,000,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,618,705

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,808,337
    Expenses
    $1,508,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,122,113

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,190,700
    Expenses
    $2,837,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $801,945

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,881,880
    Expenses
    $1,469,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,396,969

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,534,236
    Expenses
    $767,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $972,419

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Robert Chasteen-Scheer
Mailing address
7529 Standish Place Suite 200Rockville MD 20855

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

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.