Better Business Bureau Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911313983
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Boise, ID, USA
Phone
2066764194
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Business and Industry

Reported finances

Revenue
$128,541
Expenses
$83,700
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TYLER ANDREW (CEO/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TYLER ANDREW (CEO/PRESIDENT): $611,133 total reported compensation
  • HEATHER TUTTLE (COO): $312,898 total reported compensation
  • KYLE DIERCKS (CRO): $244,936 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower consumers in our service area to be confident and proactive by providing education, information and resources on marketplace issues. By doing so, bbb impacts the communities it serves.

What it reported doing in 2020

Secure your id day provides consumers the ability to shred sensistive financial documents and prevent identity theft. Senior education provides proactive scam prevention for seniors, their family members, and their care givers. Young consumers teaches financial literacy in the digital world and helps the most actively targeted population in the us protect themselves against online fraud and scams.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.1%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 34.9%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 258.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -57.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $611K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.