Berkeley Parents Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464347971
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
5103678615
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$157,907
Expenses
$111,787
Assets
$163,744
Liabilities
$32

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTINE HENDRICKS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • GINGER OGLE (CHAIR)
  • LAUREL COATES (VICE-CHAIR)
  • JEAN FICHTENKORT (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

Berkeley parents network ("bpn") will provide a free resource for local parents of the san francisco bay area to find schools, childcare, pediatricians, tutors, mechanics, and other family services, as well as receive and offer advice and recommendations on topics ranging from parenting strategies to international adoption to reviews of specific preschools in berkeley.

What it reported doing in 2025

Berkeley parents network is a parent-to-parent network for the san francisco bay area whose mission is to help local parents educate and support each other. Bpn has grown to include nearly 60,000 subscribers who receive weekly emails on a range of parenting-relating topics (childcare and schools, classes and camps, recommendations for local services, and advice from other parents). Bpn also maintains a website where parents' advice and reviews are publicly available. More than 200,000 unique users visit the bpn website each month

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.