Thess Bar

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274010051
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Reported finances

Revenue
$117,811
Expenses
$107,694
Assets
$281,095
Liabilities
$5,818

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JONES CHAN (FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JONES CHAN (FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT)
  • STEVE D HARDIN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • JASON LIN (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

To nourish bodies and souls igniting compassion so the poor can flourish. Thess Bar is crafted to nourish lives through balanced nutrition hope and community renewing the mind body and spirit.

What it reported doing in 2025

Thess Bar provides nutrition and messages of hope to poor and unhoused populations through our nutrition bar. Each bar includes a QR code linking to local faith-based and community resources extending support beyond food. We distribute bars at cost below market value to nonprofit humanitarian organizations serving disadvantaged communities as well as for natural disaster relief including the San Diego floods. For organizations unable to cover costs Thess Bar donated product directly ensuring that vulnerable individuals received nourishment for both body and spirit.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 47%; rating input score 47

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.61; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -89.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 47% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 43/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.