Bottom Up Outreach Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264484245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Winstonsalem, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3365296070
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,798,367
- Expenses
- $1,752,599
- Assets
- $153,285
- Liabilities
- $23,962
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTAL HOWARD (PRESIDENT)
- SIPHO LANGE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH WHALEY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH WHALEY (CEO): $89,600 total reported compensation
- KRISTAL HOWARD (PRESIDENT): $2,210 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is dedicated to raising awareness around our community, state, and across the world, on the special populations we serve. Buoc is commited to supporting, teaching, and empowering people with intellectual and developmental diabilities, and mental health illnesses reach their highest potential, through innovative and extraordinary services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community living & supports (cls)an individualized service that enables the person to live successfully in his/her own home, the home of his/her family or natural supports and be an active member of his/her community. Staff works to ensure that this service is being rendered and members are being empowered while self-sufficiency is being maximized. A paraprofessional/staff assists the person to learn new skills and/or supports the person in activities that are individualized and aligned with the persons preferences.for those individuals who are ready to be on their own, but still need a little bit of support, buoc can help. Our trained professionals will work out a plan and schedule visits according to specific needs. Our services are available to people who reside in their family home, apartments, or houses. Money management, shopping tips, cooking advice or help setting up a phone directory of family and friends are among the many ways that buoc's residential services can help foster the dream of living independently.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.