Bent on Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 542154416
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175235357
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,736
- Expenses
- $44,853
- Assets
- $14,252
- Liabilities
- $4,001
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anne Desmond (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Anne Desmond (Executive Director)
- Jenn Moore (Board Chair)
- Paul Kesicki (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
Bent On Learning promotes youth well-being by providing yoga, mindfulness, and social-emotional learning programs in New York City public schools. Its programs help students build self-regulation, focus, confidence, physical awareness, and stress-management skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
During FY2025, Bent On Learning provided in-school yoga and mindfulness programming in New York City public schools, serving approximately 158 students. Classes were delivered during the school day and were designed to support students' physical, emotional, and academic readiness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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 and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.