Arise Baking Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333945647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7205883192
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,943
- Expenses
- $45,395
- Assets
- $27,558
- Liabilities
- $5,010
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Molly Lange (Secretary and Executive Director)
- Emily Birschbach (President)
People named in this filing
- Molly Lange (Secretary and Executive Director)
- Emily Birschbach (President)
- Doug Lange (Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arise Baking Co. is more than just a bakery, it is an employment social enterprise that exists to employ youth and young adults with barriers to employment. Every purchase empowers young people to thrive through supportive and transitional employment in our kitchen. We envision reaching vulnerable and disconnected young people in the Denver area in a way that nurtures talent, fosters resilience, and creates a supportive community where every individual can build a brighter future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Arise Baking Co. provided employment to youth and young adults with barriers to employment. Every purchase empowers young people to thrive through supportive and transitional employment in our kitchen. In a supportive environment, Arise Baking Co. builds job skills, provides social-emotional support and invites our employees into a nurturing community that empowers them to thrive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.