Breakthru House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581053830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Decatur, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042844658
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,470,732
- Expenses
- $1,625,844
- Assets
- $2,861,351
- Liabilities
- $133,496
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRENITA JACKSON (Executive Dir.): $111,707 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transforming lives of women struggling with drug and alcohol addiction by providing a long-term residential program to experience physical, emotional and spiritual healing through recovery. As the first long-term residential recovery program for women in Georgia, breakthru residential program to experience physical, emotional and spiritual healing through recovery. As the first long-term residential recovery program for women in Georgia, breakthru house is designed to meet the unique needs of women struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Utilizing the 12 steps and therapeutic community, breakthru house provides a safe, structured drug free environment to foster a life of recovery while therapeutically addressing addiction as a disease, unresolved grief, trauma and poor self-esteem issues commonly associated with female addicts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Breakthru House served 69 clients/family units in 2024 from all areas across Georgia. Breakthru House transitional services and housing promotes supportive living for women who have completed treatment and need to remain in therapeutic environment. Breakthru House offers a safe place to rebuild their lives as they go through the process of reintegration into a healthy lifestyle. In 2023, Breakthru House successfully completed a 3-year international accreditation survey (CARF).Treatment is provided and monitored by staff with clinical expertise as evidenced by education, training and experience working in substance use disorder and mental health services. To determine the clients needs and levels of care, each client is evaluated for therapeutic services, community linkage and monitoring. The delivery of evidenced-based clinical care is composed of 25 hours of weekly treatment (including individual and group therapy) and an additional 15 hours of recovery supports including case management services.New and existing collaborations with the following: Breakthru House and The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University sponsored the 2024 Faces of Addiction & Recovery Collaborative Forum Breakthru Houses Therapeutic Child Care coordinator was honored with the 2024 Recovery Champion Award 2024 Spring and Fall Client Graduation Ceremonies 2024 Board of Directors honored the Executive Director, BreNita Jackson, for Ten Years of Excellent Leadership & ServiceBreakthru House is CARF, GARR, and THOR accredited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.