Lifebridge Community Services Inc

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to partner with individuals, youth, and families to improve well-being, strengthen resilience, and create a brighter future. Resilience is the process of effectively managing significant sources of stress or trauma. It's about fostering assets and resources within the individual, their life, and environment to facilitate this capacity for adaptation and 'bouncing back' in the face of adversity.

What it reported doing in 2024

Social enterprises: lifebridge community services operates social enterprise programs designed to support client independence and improve nutritional outcomes. The sign language interpreting program provides communication access services to deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing individuals who use sign language as their primary mode of communication. Services are provided statewide throughout Connecticut and reach approximately 1,090 deaf individuals annually. The program facilitates effective communication across medical, legal, corporate, government, and educational settings. Lifebridge's food service program provides nutritionally balanced meals to homebound seniors, individuals with disabilities, and seniors in congregate settings. During the reporting year, the program delivered over 329,110 meals to 3,892 unduplicated individuals, supporting nutrition, health, and independent living.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
060646974
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Headquarters
Bridgeport, CT, USA
Phone
2033684291
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $32.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $290K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • EDITH BOYLE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $290,251 total reported compensation
  • FRANK FARIAS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $172,885 total reported compensation
  • CARY OSTROW (SR. DIR. OF COMPLIANCE): $162,624 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.