Barrier Free Golf Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
371750986
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
St Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6122208515
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$29,214
Expenses
$30,607
Assets
$210,887
Liabilities
$373

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Susan Neuville (Past Board Chair)
  • Tim Andersen (Board Chair)
  • Lisa Farrell (Board 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

To provide people with disabilities, veterans, juniors, and beginners of all ages access to fun golf. OUR VISION: Environmentally friendly golf facilities that place a premium of stability, sustainability, and access for all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Barrier Free Golf is a 501(c) (3) non-profit excited about working with golf courses and municipalities to create access pathways to fun golf. In 2025 Barrier Free Golf's main efforts have been pursuing the opportunity to build a golf facility in Minnesota that can host both the USGA's Adaptive Open and the Minnesota State Amateur. This facility would also have a driving range and short game area. The emphasis would be to build a golf facility that is enjoyable for playing abilities. We are currently pursuing opportunities in the Twin Cities and Duluth. We are also building a business model to supply adaptive golf carts to various public golf courses in Minnesot

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85

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: -4.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.89; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 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: 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.