The Barberton Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341846432
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Barberton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3307455995
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,044,859
- Expenses
- $2,802,738
- Assets
- $114,612,979
- Liabilities
- $391,258
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA GORDON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON ONDRUS (DIRECTOR): $246,159 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL ANDRIC (DIRECTOR): $191,884 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA GORDON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $170,024 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the barberton community foundation is to strengthen the barberton community for current and future generations by providing leadership, fostering collaboration, and creating a legacy of giving to do good.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and scholarships - bcf provided 35 grants from the general fund totaling $406,543 to 24 organizations and provided 132 general fund scholarships totaling $231,393 during 2025. Donor funds provided 23 awards totaling $114,640 to 12 charitable organizations and 59 scholarships totaling $83,704. Total scholarship awards for all funds were $315,097, wth a total of 191 scholarships awarded. Total grant awards for all funds were $521,183 with a total of 58 grants awarded to 31 recipients. A total of $97,879 in grants were returned. Grand total of all awards and fund distributions for 2025 was $738,401.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.7%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.4%; rating input score 97; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 40.89; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.7% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 25 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.