Barrier Free Life
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453725537
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7144024383
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $184,506
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RALPH DEMIRTSHIAN (CEO)
- PAUL ESPINOSA (President)
People named in this filing
- RALPH DEMIRTSHIAN (CEO)
- BRIAN LERNER (Secretary)
- PAUL ESPINOSA (President)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Barrier Free Life (BFL) is dedicated to helping children, the underprivileged and the disabled through their purposes:1.To educate the public about homelessness, childhood obesity and living with disabilities,2.To educate communities about self-sufficiency and successful social integration,3.To increase public awareness of the importance of integrating disabled persons into everyday community life,4.To provide education and action among parents, schools and communities that will result in wiser health and nutrition choices for children,5.To provide a platform for community members to speak out a
What it reported doing in 2017
Barrier free life attempted to have more events to raise awareness of its causes and provide for the underprivileged. Unfortunately due to difficulties of aquiring the necessary help, including volunteers and partners to continue our mission, barrier free life needed to close its doors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
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: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -40% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -40% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $170K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2012 to 2017
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.