Dinner Before Bedtime Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852011588
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Shelbyville, IN, USA
Phone
3173925502
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,456
Expenses
$45,589
Assets
$288,840
Liabilities
$3,613

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLES O'CONNOR (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CELESTE FISCHER (BOARD MEMBER)
  • CHARLES O'CONNOR (PRESIDENT)
  • AARON HAEHL (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

Dinner before bedtime purchases meals from cracker barrel and other local restaurants and partners with local churches to provide delivery of meals seven nights a week to children with food insecurity in shelby county Indiana.

What it reported doing in 2024

Dinner before bedtime started october 1, 2020 and as of the end of 2024, dinner before bedtime has paid for and coordinated delivery of 20,547 meals. In 2024, dinner before bedtime purchased 5,162 meals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.6%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 57.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.34; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.