Bartko Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522388581
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4123711142
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Parent Agencies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,709
- Expenses
- $117,846
- Assets
- $366,674
- Liabilities
- $2,331
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARL ELLIS PERKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MICHELE BOSSERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- JASON BOSSERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- HENK BOSSERS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The bartko foundation is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to invest in the self-sufficiency of single minority mothers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide grants to help single minority mothers with dependent children under age eighteen to reach and maintain self-sufficiency in the areas of housing, education, employment, and transportation. In 2024, the bartko foundation provided grants for 9 people. It included grants for transportation and employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 61.8%; rating input score 62
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: 9.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.1% of revenue deployed · 61.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.