Balboa Park Online Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202105617
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2013
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6193311970
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Operating Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,130,708
- Expenses
- $1,163,738
- Assets
- $990,890
- Liabilities
- $287,516
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NIK HONEYSETT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- NIK HONEYSETT (CEO): $223,668 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To foster a culture of innovation and collaboration among nonprofit organizations through technology, with a focus on balboa park. Bpoc's vision is to be a technology collaboration that connects audiences to art, culture, and science.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bpoc core support provides competitive and affordable it contract services to 27 cultural institutions in balboa park allowing the organizations to accomplish high levels of technological proficiency and collaborative services including the park-wide data and a shared phone system. Bpoc's pervasive wireless network is now providing shared internet access to 26 balboa park cultural institutions as well as to the public via 200 public wireless access points and hotspots deployed by bpoc. This investment in the wifi infrastructure improves the overall visitor experience, serving an average of 3700 clients per day and enabling park institutions to utilize technologies that engage and broaden their audiences. Bpoc also provides competitive and affordable it contract services to 4 cultural organizations outside balboa park.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $885K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $224K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.