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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: May 2025 Expires: May 2027

Kindering Center

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(425) 747-4004
16120 Northeast 8th Street
Bellevue, WA, 98008
https://kindering.org
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Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Kindering Center meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to embrace children of diverse abilities and their families by providing the finest education and therapies and nurture hope, courage, and the skills to soar."

Year, State Incorporated:
1964, WA

Kindering Center (Kindering) reports that it provides support for children of diverse abilities and their families through direct services, consultations, and training. The organization offers pediatric therapies and support from birth to ten years. Kindering’s KidsClinic Pediatric Therapy provides outpatient therapies and work on skills for daily life, such as, social-emotional skills, motor skills, community mobility, and creating home practice programs. The organization’s early learning and school readiness programs include child care and preschool consultation, family co-op play groups, special education services, and Stepping Stones Toddler Preschool for children ages 22 months to three years. Kindering facilitates CHERISH, an infant mental health program designed to meet the unique needs of children in the child welfare system and their caregivers. The organization also provides some services, including development evaluations and parent education virtually.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, Kindering Center's program expenses were:

Early intervention $16,676,078
KidsClinic $1,799,525
CHERISH $1,303,849
Child care and preschool consultation $620,857
Families in transition $482,526
Parent education and ParentChild+ $342,563
Family support $235,292
Total Program Expenses $21,460,690

Chief Executive
Mari Offenbacher, Interim Chief Executive Officer

Chair of the Board
Gloria Hong, JD and Phil Banta

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Managing Director, Litigation, Law and Corporate Affairs, Starbucks and Director, Baird

Board Size
18

Paid Staff Size
246

*2023 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Note: Compensation information for Interim Chief Executive Officer Mari Offenbacher is not available. Former Chief Executive Officer Lisa Greenwald was the highest paid employee with total compensation of $242,101 in 2023.

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Grant proposals, Internet, Direct mail appeals, Membership appeals, Planned giving arrangements, Print advertisements (newspapers, magazines, etc.), Telephone appeals, Cause-related marketing (affinity credit cards, consumer product sales, etc.)

Fundraising costs were 6% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $18,061,120, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Kindering Center's audited financial statements - consolidated for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Source of Funds
Government fees and grants $15,185,983
Program service fees $3,860,933
Investment income $2,113,429
Contributions $1,897,479
Special events, net $843,218
Interest income on short-term investments $409,498
United Way grants $86,419
In-kind contributions $48,021
Other income $5,842
Total Income $24,450,822

Programs: 85% Fundraising: 4% Administrative: 11%

Total Income $24,450,822
Total expenses: $25,193,791
  Program expenses $21,460,690
  Fundraising expenses $1,043,774
  Administrative expenses $2,689,327
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $-742,969
Beginning Net Assets $26,702,809
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $25,959,840
Total Liabilities $7,208,787
Total Assets $33,168,627

Note: According to the organization's 2023 consolidated audited financial statements, Kindering recieved in-kind contributions totaling $48,021 in the form of rent.

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Report completed by:
BBB Wise Giving Alliance