Overcoming Barriers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010909327
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Branford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8605751396
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,701
- Expenses
- $16,358
- Assets
- $67,991
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUISE TRUAX (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAMELA PIERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- JOHN MORAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- LESLIE DROZD (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To support a family systems approach to children resisting or rejecting a parent in post-separation families, setup effective and accessible family centered programs, professional development and training, education to advance the field of knowledge and awareness of innovative approaches for these families
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide publications to support a family systems approach to children resisting or rejecting a parent in post-separation families. Received income from previously published book.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -68.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.16; rating input score 81; 81st 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: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.