Laughing Bear Bakery

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812921213
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Rock Hill, MO, USA
Phone
3149617515
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$170,136
Expenses
$168,966
Assets
$336,905
Liabilities
$540

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MIKE GANN (PRESIDENT)
  • MIKE WHIPKEY (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KARLENE MCALLISTER (TREASURER)
  • MIKE GANN (PRESIDENT)
  • MIKE WHIPKEY (VICE-PRESIDENT)

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

Laughing bear bakery is work-skills reintegration program for ex-offenders. The goal of the program is to offer an employment opportunity to ex-offenders attempting to transition back into the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The bakery is a work-skills reintegration program for ex-offenders. The goal of the program is to offer an employment opportunity to ex-offenders attempting to transition back into the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -53.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.