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BEYOND THE BARS INC

BEYOND THE BARS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,902,210 to it, the largest being THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ($338,861). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$902k
27/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Beyond the Bars Inc does

Mission

Beyond the bars is a student driven and community based music and career planning program that works to support youth impacted by violence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,104,938 spent$1,108,916 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,104,938.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2020 Revenue 1105 ($102k) Expenses 242 ($35k) Net assets 347 ($94k)2021 Revenue 4452 ($410k) Expenses 996 ($143k) Net assets 1330 ($362k)2022 Revenue 8358 ($770k) Expenses 3226 ($462k) Net assets 2462 ($670k)2023 Revenue 10480 ($966k) Expenses 5654 ($811k) Net assets 3033 ($825k)2024 Revenue 12696 ($1.2M) Expenses 7815 ($1.1M) Net assets 3217 ($876k)2025 Revenue 13991 ($1.3M) Expenses 8814 ($1.3M) Net assets 3313 ($902k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (13991)Expenses (8814)Net assets (3313)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $369k to $689k (+87%).

$27k
$94k
$369k
$689k
$891k
$958k
$982k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of BEYOND THE BARS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’19
$67k
’20
$268k
’21
$308k
’22
$156k
’23
$50k
’24
$26k
’25
7.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Matthew Kerr

Executive director

Board chair

Rollo Dilworth

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed88888
Joined·+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $30k → $403k.

5 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BEYOND THE BARS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BEYOND THE BARS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

29% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEYOND THE BARS INC.

18%
largest funder
33%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 45% · 2022 32% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of BEYOND THE BARS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

69% of BEYOND THE BARS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
CO
MD
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BEYOND THE BARS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)128% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BEYOND THE BARS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC?
BEYOND THE BARS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,902,210 to it, the largest being THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ($338,861). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEYOND THE BARS INC have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,902,210 in grants to BEYOND THE BARS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEYOND THE BARS INC?
THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $338,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEYOND THE BARS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 44 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing