Fresh Start Barber School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933453224
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Kokomo, IN, USA
- Phone
- 7652713073
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,933
- Expenses
- $43,992
- Assets
- $30,562
- Liabilities
- $145
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DUSTIN MOLOCH (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA EBELING (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DUSTIN MOLOCH (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA EBELING (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE RANKIN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide vocational education, workforce development, mentoring, and rehabilitative support to individuals transitioning from the criminal justice system and those recovering from addiction. Through state-licensed barber training, life-skills development, career readiness, and supportive recovery resources, fresh start barber school empowers underserved individuals to obtain professional barber licensure, secure stable employment, reduce recidivism and relapse, and successfully reintegrate into society as productive and self-sufficient members of their communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Vocational barber training & career placement program: fresh start barber school provided state-licensed barber education and workforce development services to individuals transitioning from the criminal justice system and those recovering from addiction. During the year, the organization enrolled and trained 15 students in barbering techniques, sanitation practices, professionalism, and lifeskills development. Four students are expected to graduate within the next five months and have secured job placement opportunities upon completion of the program and state licensure requirements. The program equips students with employable trade skills, mentorship, and career readiness support to help reduce recidivism, relapse, and unemployment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.