Sober Founders Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
334098435
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lake Worth, FL, USA
Phone
5617822695
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rehabilitative Medical Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,955
Expenses
$21,730
Assets
$40,854
Liabilities
$4,629

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrew Lassise (President)
  • Kandace Arena (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Andrew Lassise (President)
  • Kandace Arena (Executive Director)
  • Emma Lassise (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

Sober Founders supports entrepreneurs and professionals in recovery from substance use disorders through structured peer groups, recovery-informed education, and community programming that strengthens long-term sobriety, ethical leadership, and sustainable livelihoods.

What it reported doing in 2025

BUSINESS MASTERMIND PEER GROUPS: Sober Founders operates two free peer mastermind groups for entrepreneurs in recovery from substance use disorders. These groups serve entrepreneurs at different stages of business growth while maintaining a shared commitment to recovery filling a gap for people who are simultaneously navigating the demands of entrepreneurship and the disciplines of personal recovery. The first group is open to any entrepreneur in recovery regardless of business stage and grew to over 210 members in its first year. The second group serves more established entrepreneurs with additional criteria around revenue sobriety requirements and familiarity with 12-step principles and reached 60 members in its first year. Both groups follow a structured facilitation format where members share business challenges discuss how recovery principles apply to leadership and receive honest feedback from peers with shared lived experience. Combined these groups served over 270 active participants in their first year while the organization's broader social media community grew to thousands of followers demonstrating strong and growing demand for this type of programming.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 33.6%; rating input score 34
  • Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90

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: 62.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 33.6% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 1 filing year from 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.