Bending the Bars Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874069036
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime, Legal Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,516
- Expenses
- $4,065
- Assets
- $451
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicole Deyo (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Nicole Deyo (Executive Director)
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
Build the Blueprint - will include payroll for facilitator and housing staff gas supplies and GTL; services would include facilitating an eight-week program to at-risk youth as an alternative or preventive method to detention the program addresses a pre-assessment interactive listening active case files scenarios ACEs assessments establishment of a tailored blueprint for success resources and wraparound services and post-assessment; the program was created late 2025 and has not completed any courses we are currently promoting the program at events schools probation offices and detention centers. Back to Basics - will include payroll for facilitator and housing staff gas supplies; services would include facilitating an eight-week program to returning citizens within Department of Corrections and in the community the program addresses pre-assessment integration back into society relationships mental health technology employment budgeting housing and education and p
What it reported doing in 2025
Back to Basics - will include payroll for facilitator and housing staff gas supplies; services would include facilitating an eight-week program to returning citizens within Department of Corrections and in the community the program addresses pre-assessment integration back into society relationships mental health technology employment budgeting housing and education and post assessment; the program was created late 2025 and has completed one session resulting in determining the proper career choice resume composition we are currenting promoting the program to the Director of Programs in DOC and re-entry home owners. STOP Steadily Thinking Outside of Prison - will include payroll for facilitator gas and supplies; services would include facilitating a seven-week program to incarcerated individuals with long term sentences the program addresses pre-assessment how to process their sentence how to adjust to the environment how to respond to peer pressure relationships staying ready self-love and reflection and wraparound sources; the program was created late 2025 and has been implemented in Fluvanna Correctional Center with 50 participants
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.