The Hyperbaric Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460939818
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New Orleans, LA, USA
Phone
5042968836
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$159,239
Expenses
$70,836
Assets
$415,432
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLELAND POWELL (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CLELAND POWELL (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CLAUDIA POWELL (SECRETARY)

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

The hyperbaric institute's mission is to support hyperbaric oxygen therapy (hbot) research, education, and treatment. The institute helps families of patients with brain injuries and chronic diseases fund hbot treatment when insurance and other resources are unavailable, raises public awareness about the patients it serves and the conditions they face, and supports scientific research into hbot's gene- and stem-cell-stimulating properties to give people back their lives. The institute's long-term goal is to expand access to this therapy and to maximize global health, well-being, and longevity.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hbot research. The institute supported quantitative electroencephalography (qeeg) analysis ($3,299) and research-assistant services ($4,980), for a total of $8,279 in 2025 research support directed at understanding hbot's therapeutic mechanisms in brain-injury populations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.5%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.86; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.