Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813496316
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4028849665
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,754,649
- Expenses
- $1,292,267
- Assets
- $373,747
- Liabilities
- $19,437
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRAVIS SCHWARTZ (PRESIDENT/CHAIR)
- CANDACE PRICE (VICE PRESIDENT/VICE CHAIR)
- MARCUS BELL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARCUS BELL (CEO): $148,377 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
What it reported doing in 2025
The getting ahead program is a unique, transformational 8 to 9-week course designed to empower lower-income individuals. More than 95% of our participants earn less than 200% of the federal poverty level. We intentionally recruit and serve people who are under-resourced and navigating barriers related to poverty, employment, and stability. The curriculum helps participants explore and strengthen their social capital while building essential soft skills, including problem-solving, time management, goal setting, negotiation and mediation, professional communication, emotional regulation, and basic financial management.annually, we graduate between 300 to 400 participants. On average, graduates see a $1,500 monthly income increase, a 50% reduction in their debt-to-income ratio, and an $8,000 annual increase in assets. Through our programming, we are not only creating a safer, healthier, and more productive omaha metro area - we are restoring hope and opening doors to a better future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.1%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.1% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $889K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.