Be the Bridge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383992480
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7316103667
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,136,534
- Expenses
- $1,372,719
- Assets
- $395,530
- Liabilities
- $11,562
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LATASHA MORRISON (FOUNDER AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LATASHA MORRISON (FOUNDER AND CEO): $130,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Be the bridge develops relevant education resources and discussion guides that provide transformative, relational pathways for those engaging in the work of racial healing, equity, and reconciliation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Be the bridge develops relevant education resources and discussion guides that provide transformative, relational pathways for those engaging in the work of racial healing, equity, and reconciliation. Resources in btb programs include the continued updates and production of the primary group discussion guides, including building bridges: a 10-session blueprint for the collective journey toward racial reconciliation, and we need to talk: a bipoc guide to healing ourselves. Discussion guides provide pathways for people to move toward racial justice internally and also in community with others. Thousands throughout the us and more than a dozen nations have utilized theseguides, and be the bridge provides support for these community groups as well as creating, updating, and expanding the material with expert voices from multiple racial perspectives. Additionally, btb programs department expanded live events focused on community-building, encouragement, and education, including the btb live in collaboration with local btb groups in columbus, oh and the btb summit in atlanta. Resources include structured video courses and multi-day, in person training. Poscasts: the btb podcast produced 25 podcast pisodes in 2024, providing historical insight, practical understanding, and encouragement to bridge builders across the nation and world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $57.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -20.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.