The Ryan Bartel Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475129027
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Waterford, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7034313675
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $688,983
- Expenses
- $537,478
- Assets
- $786,277
- Liabilities
- $40,360
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- JASON BALSER (DIRECTOR)
- BEN BARTEL (TREASURER)
- SUZANNE BARTEL (CHAIRPERSON)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the organization is to prevent youth suicide through awareness, upstream educational programs and activities that support and empower youth, families and the community at-large through acceptance, connection, resiliency and hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and training the successful delivery of our teen programs depends on trained adult facilitators. Our own created teen mental wellness facilitator program provides facilitators who have domain expertise with mental health literacy and group facilitation skills to deliver our resilience building workshops and programs. Once trained, they help create a safe space for teens to be their authentic selves, fostering acceptance and connection with other teens and adults. Sources of strength is a best practice, evidence led youth mental health promotion and suicide prevention program offered by us to schools and communities. It offers training and curriculum for both youth and adults, using a strength-based, upstream approach to mental health promotion and the prevention of adverse outcomes such as suicide, violence, bullying, and substance misuse. By reinforcing multiple sources of support, also known as protective factors, this model helps young people build resilience, ensuring they have strengths to lean on during difficult times.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 66.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $358K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.