Bawac Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
610844925
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Florence, KY, USA
Phone
8593714410
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employment Procurement Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,450,812
Expenses
$7,009,756
Assets
$10,181,794
Liabilities
$1,304,031

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON ASHBROOK (PRESIDENT AND CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON ASHBROOK (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $151,227 total reported compensation
  • STEPHEN STRICKER (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $124,923 total reported compensation
  • RICHARD PRATT (DIRECTOR OF SERVICES): $109,372 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to transform barriers into opportunities for people with disabilities, or other challenges, by empowering them with services to live, learn, work, and thrive in the community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Bawac transportation transported 215-225 individuals with disability through 6 counties in the northern Kentucky area in fy25. We are under contract with ftsb, northern Kentucky area district, and st. Elizabeth outpatient services to provide non-emergency medical transportation throughout the greater cincinnati and northern Kentucky area. Our medical transports serve close to 200 patients to and from the hospital, dialysis, pharmacies, and doctors appointments as far north as west chester, Ohio and as far south as louisville, ky, along with going into south central Indiana. We have also started doing socialization trips for people to visit with family and friends who don't have the ability to do so on their own. Bawac transportation continues to provide transport to individuals that have community jobs through our supported employment services in the northern Kentucky area. Bawac transportation continues to strive to be on time, reliable, respectable, and dependable in our community and to our partners, resulting in good passenger surveys. In fy25, bawac transportation was generously granted several grants/vehicles from the state of ky along with the partnership with the oki/sorta in cincinnati, oh. We received some well needed new vans and buses to help us grow and replenish old equipment. Bawac transportation currently has 57 vehicles in our fleet. We range anywhere from ford connects all the way to ford e450 buses. We have greatly increased our fleet of wheel chair equipped vans and buses, with easy access entrance ways to help with our aging population.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 84% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

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; 63rd 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: 5.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.