Jason Baker Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464301786
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3174073802
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,492
- Expenses
- $25,636
- Assets
- $31,168
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jerry Baker (Chairperson)
- Janice Starnes (Treasurer/Sec)
- Gabrielle Baker (Co-Chairperson)
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
Provide funds to award to students pursuing college education in preparation for a career in public safety.
What it reported doing in 2025
Funds are given to students pursuing careers in public safety.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 54.6%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -634.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 54.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.