Rebound Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862860666
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Davis, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158467225
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $701,864
- Expenses
- $136,690
- Assets
- $892,228
- Liabilities
- $336,062
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Bell (President)
People named in this filing
- Jason Bell (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Rebound Institute is a self-sustaining enterprise that will support formerly incarcerated and justice-involved people in their pursuit of a safe living space, education and employment opportunities that draw on individual skills upon release. In partnership with Bay Area law schools and attorneys, the Institute will also provide law students and others interested in justice reform with an opportunity to work with program participants on a variety of legal issues, including applications for record expungements, certificates of rehabilitation and clemency, with the intent of eliminating barriers to justice and reentry.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Silicon Valley Foundation Meadow Fund Grant was received in August, 2023 to support the Institute's mission and goals. The Institute spent $540,000 on a building to be used as the physical location of the Rebound Institute for hands-on learning, $18,000 on living spaces for program participants, $79,293.50 on renovations and plan design for the new building, $1,393.55 on outreach, $9,877.50 on college fees, $8,551.84 on insurance, and $510.11 on utilities. The remaining $7,521.24 was spent of office expenses including website maintenance, bank fees, and QuickBooks financial system.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.6%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $469.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.53; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 88.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 130.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.6% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $665K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.