Brevard Rescue Mission Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261686406
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3214809100
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,421,006
- Expenses
- $2,082,027
- Assets
- $7,658,668
- Liabilities
- $1,514,794
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Lyon (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Amy Lyon (CEO): $106,701 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Organization works to permanently break the cycle of homelessness by providing homeless women with children safe shelter, onsite childcare, access to mental health counseling, access to health care, transportation, education, nutrition, job training, and life skills education in a safe, Christ-centered residential setting. The 12 to 24 month program is designed to lovingly transform families from dependency to self-sufficiency through daily accountability, personal responsibility, and goal advancement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brevard Rescue Mission, Inc. dba New Life Mission (the Organization) is a not-for-profit corporation formed on February 15, 2008. The Organization's mission is to equip homeless women with children to transform their families for generations in a Christ-centered environment. Through education, accountability, and goal advancement, their program empowers families to become self-sufficient and break the cycle of homelessness. The facilities include four campuses, all located in Brevard County, Florida. Our newest campus, New Life Village, opened in 2022 and is located on 25 acres at the end of Croton Road in Melbourne, FL. New Life Village is a gated and secure property with two residential buildings built for group-style living, four quad apartments with shared kitchens, and an administrative building with offices, meeting and dining spaces. New Life Village provides stable housing for more families when they first enter the program and includes the Kids Academy childcare center, on-site case management, mental health counseling, financial coaching, life skill training, and Bible-based studies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 37th 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: 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: Pass
- 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: 14%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.68; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.