Lba Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275343988
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3195335095
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,529
- Expenses
- $87,295
- Assets
- $3,449
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rashar Morgan (President)
- Todd Stark (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Rashar Morgan (President)
- Todd Stark (Vice President)
- Sarah Sandersfeld (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The LBA Foundation (Leaders Believers Achievers) exists to assist youth find their purpose and connect with their community so they can build their best life and become model and productive members of our community and nation. We believe every youth can achieve greateness when they connect to their purpose, connect to mentors and community, and connect to a dream they feel is achieveable with the people and resources we bring to support them. We provide mentorship, career exploration, skills building, academic assistance, and evangelize all career pathways equally---college, skilled trades, entrepreneurship, or career readiness with equal vigor.
What it reported doing in 2025
The LBA Foundation supported over 600 youths across eastern Iowa, primarily in Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Our efforts are centered on helping youths get connected to something that they feel passionate about and then finding resources to help them pursue that goal and dream. We took over 60 youths on business site visits to learn about different jobs and industries, held 4 events in area parks to encourage exploration of green spaces, conducted after school gatherings at local gyms and rec centers where we had over 422 attendees during 2025. During the past year we also assisted 27 at risk youth to achieve their diplomas and helped place 16 students into summer jobs and internships. A big push for our organization was holding seminars where we introduced various careers to our youths so they could realize how many options there truly are to pursue--and these seminars had over 126 attendees. Additionally, we continued our efforts to help remove stigmas around talking about mental health and continued our youth mental wellness circles that had 42 youths participate in for multiple meetings throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 30.3%; rating input score 30
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: 3.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th 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: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 30.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.