Bare Inc Nfp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880610702
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Montgomery, IL, USA
Phone
6302003056
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$195,943
Expenses
$197,153
Assets
$74,690
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JORDAN SARBAUGH (PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER LAU (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JORDAN SARBAUGH (PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER LAU (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KATE MULLEN (SECRETARY)

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

To drive research and education for better outcomes in treatment and management within the biliary atresia community.

What it reported doing in 2025

General programs: general programs are items or programs that go into furthering bare as a whole and not just one specific program. This includes educational webinars, presentations, investing in technology, consultants, marketing, etc. Some of the general programs will fall into an 'admin' capacity that impacts all programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $180K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.