Brace for Impact 46 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473124959
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Lake Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3146778973
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,097,667
- Expenses
- $1,009,631
- Assets
- $302,246
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kyle McClellan (President)
- Bridget McClellan (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Bridget McClellan (Executive Director): $85,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enhancing the lives of all people, including children, with the potential to live healthy and productive lives. Provides sustainable benefits to people in need regardless of race or religion.
What it reported doing in 2024
In Haiti, BFI46 supports a childrens home with 40 children by providing education, medical care, clean water and daily necessities. The on-site school benefits these children and 525 others from the surrounding community. The local community faces challenges related to employment, healthcare, water supply and food security. The Breaking Bread Feeding Program serves 94500 lunches each school year, ensuring that students/staff receive a hot nutritious meal every school day, while sending home pre-packaged meals on weekends to guarantee proper nutrition. This initiative alleviates stress, allowing them to concentrate on their studies without worrying about their next meal, and it lightens the burden on parents while supporting the local economy by sourcing ingredients locally. Brew for Impact program promotes sustainable employment in farming communities. The CHIDA Hospital caters to 2000 patients daily, delivered over 200 babies and has reduced mortality rate by 85%.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $924K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.