Back the Line Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871405784
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Bloomington, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8123611320
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,327
- Assets
- $7,060
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DATHA HOFFMIESTER (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN HARRIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DATHA HOFFMIESTER (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN HARRIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOEL BOMGARDNER (TREASURER)
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
Back the line inc. Is a monroe county 501(c)(3) charitabe organization that supports active-duty police, fire, ems and dispatch personnel and their families when strategy strikes. We offer services such as personal care assistance, financial suuport for those who are injured or serious ill and funeral support for those who have fallen in the line of duty.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grant funding
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 2 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.