Breaking Barriers International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922847183
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- East St Louis, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6185155728
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,438
- Expenses
- $68,427
- Assets
- $18,646
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR TIFFANY GHOLSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARCIE HAWKINS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR TIFFANY GHOLSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARCIE HAWKINS (PRESIDENT)
- EARL MCDOWELL JR (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Breaking barriers international is an organization that works to uplift children in urban and impoverished areas who have experienced trauma or violence or live amongst it. We aim to support children impacted by trauma and violence while identifying the root causes and bringing awareness of their experiences and environments to others for greater understanding. We provide safe spaces and opportunities for children to heal, grow, and be exposed to new and positive experiences, and allow children to explore their untapped potential. The butterfly symbolizes transformation, hope, power of positive change, and the beginning of new life-a goal for all of our children. _
What it reported doing in 2024
Crooked path - this program serves children who have experienced violence or trauma or live amongst it. We help them heal, grow, and expose them to new experiences and opportunities. We operated within out-of-school time with weekly programming in safe spaces and allowed them to experience camps and community events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 66.2%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 95%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 66.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.