Be the Change Charity Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991679424
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
6785320149
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,496
Expenses
$48,576
Assets
$27
Liabilities
$9,402

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAURIE BELL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • LAURIE BELL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
  • KENNETH SAUNDERS (CFO)
  • SARANA HARFORD (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

Be the change exists to empower children by providing transformational experiences, educational opportunities, and community-based programs that cultivate confidence, resilience, compassion, and leadership. The organization delivers innovative youth development initiatives designed to help children realize their potential and become positive, engaged contributors to their communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided youth and adult golf education programs at multiple public courses and indoor simulator facilities. Participants received instruction in fundamentals discipline sportsmanship and confidence-building. Served approximately 500 participants onboarded six golf instructors formed eight community partnerships and received approval as an lpga girls golf chapter.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 32
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.9%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 43.2%; rating input score 43

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: 42.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 348.22; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 56.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -198.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.9% of revenue deployed · 43.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.