Better Business Bureau Foundation of Central Ohio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300022212
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6144866336
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Consumer Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,318
- Expenses
- $76,175
- Assets
- $71,279
- Liabilities
- $750
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDITH L KETNER-DOLLISON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
People named in this filing
- JUDITH L KETNER-DOLLISON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- LUCY FRONTERA (BOARD MEMBER)
- TOM HEFFNER (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Develop and promote ethical culture, helping business leaders and future leaders (students) lead with integrity. Provide training to lead with character, building a strong culture for serving customers and community. Create award programs which recognize business and student leaders who model these character ethics.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct the student integrity awards program for the bbband the laws of life essay contest
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
SUPPORTED - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.7% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.