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BREAK THE BARRIERS INC

EIN 77-0106437 FRESNO, CA

Revenue 2025
$3,095,327
Expenses 2025
$3,034,161

Program services were 84.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80Z
Classification
1000
Street
8555 N CEDAR AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Break the Barriers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1984, celebrates the achievements of individuals of all abilities, ethnicities, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds through inclusive programs, outreach, and education. Our mission is to empower local and global communities, fostering optimal creative, physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. We strive to enhance quality of life by helping individuals unlock their full potential and overcome physical and mental barriers.Based in our 39,000-square-foot Ability Center, Break the Barriers serves over 3,000 weekly participants, including Buddy students from Valley Schools, refugees, at-risk youth, and a growing number of Military Veterans. Our 23 inclusive programs - supported by donations, grants, and events - are tailored to meet evolving community needs. These programs span performing arts, sports, aquatics, education, health, and fitness, encouraging participants to pursue their dreams. Our alumni include Olympians

Activities or mission (Part I)

Break the Barriers mission is to serve both local and global communities through inclusive sports, performing arts, workshops, outreach and education. Break the Barriers empowers individuals of all ages to achieve optimal, creative, physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.

  • Through grants, fundraising events, individual and corporate donations Break the Barriers serves 3,000 people with various abilities weekly in house and hundreds of thousands annually locally and around the world. Break the Barriers is the largest recreation education and aftercare rehabilitation program in the nation for veterans and active duty members outside of the Veterans Administration. Break the Barriers serves underserved youth through recreation, cultural arts, and literacy programs.

    Expenses $2,564,385

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jared Hergenrader

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $116,581
    From this org
    $116,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Deby Hergenrader

    Director

    Total calculated
    $94,915
    From this org
    $94,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mike Hernandez

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Tom Milne

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kelly Kruger

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David VonAh

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ray Buchanan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Carson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Cerro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tom Borchardt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fidel Uribe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Mouw

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,095,327
    Expenses
    $3,034,161
    Contributions
    $801,907
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,462,828
    Expenses
    $2,421,988
    Contributions
    $1,549,674
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,591,516
    Expenses
    $2,099,224
    Contributions
    $1,035,146
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,627,705
    Expenses
    $1,797,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,639,570

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,828,244
    Expenses
    $1,467,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,586,758

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,775,266
    Expenses
    $1,678,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,642,227

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,775,266
    Expenses
    $1,678,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,642,227

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,550,551
    Expenses
    $1,714,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,442,590

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.