Fear for Breakfast
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871094586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Rosemead, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6264009547
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $466,639
- Expenses
- $405,212
- Assets
- $139,377
- Liabilities
- $77,617
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TUE HUYNH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TUAN DOAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TUE HUYNH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $67,835 total reported compensation
- TUAN DOAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $36,062 total reported compensation
- NGAN HONG (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $25,933 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower current and formerly incarcerated individuals through healing centered programs that foster personal transformation, community reintegration, and systems change-breaking cycles of incarceration and building pathways to dignity, purpose, and belonging.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fear for breakfast (ffb) delivers healing centered programming that supports individuals through the full arc of reentry from incarceration to community reintegration. Inside correctional facilities, ffb facilitates transformative workshops focused on identity development, mindset, life skills, and trauma recovery. These sessions are led by formerly incarcerated leaders and trained professionals, fostering a credible and empathetic environment for personal growth. Upon release, participants receive wraparound support including mentorship, counseling, internship opportunities, and continued life skills development. This continuum of care equips individuals to navigate reentry challenges, build resilience, and reduce recidivism through long-term reintegration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.9% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $261K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.