IBC Network Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383850833
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Sealy, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2817975578
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $213,090
- Expenses
- $244,696
- Assets
- $48,054
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Terry Arnold (Founder and Chair)
- Laurie Main (Treasurer)
- Jennifer Heckert (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
The IBC Network Foundation funds research for Inflammatory Breast Cancer and provides proactive education to the general public and the medical community regarding Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community outreach and patient support programs, including IBC Meet Ups, are mission-driven initiatives designed to support individuals affected by inflammatory breast cancer through in-person connection, education, and community building. Each event includes structured educational opportunities, such as lab tours and presentations by guest speakers, including physicians, researchers, and other professionals with expertise in inflammatory breast cancer. These experiences provide participants with direct insight into current research and treatment approaches while fostering meaningful engagement with experts in the field. The program also created a supportive environment for patients and caregivers to share experiences, reduce isolation, and access relevant resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, and 55% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th 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: 90.7%; rating input score 91; 55th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -14.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $200K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.