BreakDown STL
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030593446
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chesterfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3145707625
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Planning Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $393,778
- Expenses
- $245,393
- Assets
- $212,744
- Liabilities
- $18,130
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenna Imergoot (Founder and President)
- John Kramer (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jenna Imergoot (Founder and President)
- John Kramer (Vice President)
- Lori Cannon (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
BreakDown STL develops the next generation of ambassadors for Christ and servant leaders, committed to making disciples, engaging culturally relevant challenges, and transforming communities with the truth and love of Jesus.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 2006, BreakDown STL has served more than 190,500 students and adults through programs focused on mental health awareness, character development, and community engagement. To advance its mission, BreakDown STL maintains structured partnerships with schools and community organizations, allowing it to deliver programming directly to youth and families in accessible, trusted settings. In 2025, BreakDown STL trained 33 students through an intensive servant leadership program. Participants are selected through a competitive audition process to join the BreakDown STL Leadership Team, comprised of high school and college-age students. Once selected, team members engage in weekly training that emphasizes character development, leadership skills, mental health education, and other essential life skills, preparing them to serve as positive role models within their communities. Leadership Team members apply their training through active participation in one of two community engagement initiatives: OnStage or OutReach. The OnStage program is a peer-to-peer model in which team members deliver multimedia presentations addressing mental health, addiction, and abuse in schools and community venues, fostering awareness and encouraging help-seeking behaviors. The OutReach program is a service-based initiative through which team members meet tangible needs, build meaningful relationships, and collaborate with local organizations. Through these efforts, participants provide compassionate support to individuals facing hardship and extend care grounded in the organizations faith-based values.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $89.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 37.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.