Benjamin F and Ernestine Bruton Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363391040
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Woodbridge, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7038508066
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $23,548
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Benjamin F and Ernestine Bruton Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Woodbridge, VA. EIN 363391040.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 15 grants totaling $17,000. The stated grant purpose was scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing clearly reports transactions involving insiders and a large share of spending goes to grants. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 72
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 81
- Endowment Health: 94
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 5; rating input score 62
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 50.33; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 94th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 5 of 8 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Assets equal liabilities and net assets did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Balance sheet boy total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Balance sheet eoy total did not reconcile in the filed values.