The Breaking Bread Village
Legal name: Breaking Bread Village
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853173028
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Midland, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9899481696
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,295
- Expenses
- $101,644
- Assets
- $5,560
- Liabilities
- $51
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAQUODRA SIMMONS (PRESIDENT)
- ERIN PATRICE (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DWANA NEAL (TREASURER)
- GEZELLE MYERS (SECRETARY)
- LAQUODRA SIMMONS (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create transformative spaces rooted in the humanities for authentic dialogue and meaningful connections, empowering individuals to embrace diverse perspectives and foster growth within themselves and their communities through education, intentional discussion, meaningful connectivity, and dedicated service.
What it reported doing in 2024
1. The live show experienceover the past four and a half years, the breaking bread village successfully hosted the live show experience across the great lakes bay region, engaging hundreds of community members in authentic, courageous conversations. Each stop on the tour centered around timely and sometimes difficult topicsranging from racism and cancel culture to child advocacy and compassion. By featuring diverse guest speakers and promoting open dialogue, the live shows have helped foster deeper understanding and community connection. Attendees consistently shared that the experience left them feeling heard, seen, and inspired to build bridges within their own circles. The live shows have become a cornerstone of our work and a catalyst for meaningful change throughout the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -108.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.