Bridge Family Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993038356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6155250707
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,340
- Expenses
- $58,460
- Assets
- $20,209
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jim Soyster (Vice President)
- Brent Morgan (President)
People named in this filing
- Anna Morgan (Secretary/Treasurer)
- Jim Soyster (Vice President)
- Rusty Rutledge (Officer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bridge Family Ministries exists to strengthen and support foster families, foster youth, and the broader foster care community in Middle Tennessee by providing relational, emotional, practical, and spiritual support. The organization works to reduce foster family burnout, promote stability for children in foster care, and build a supportive community through mentorship, fellowship programs, resource support, and events that encourage healthy relationships and long-term family success.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bridge Family Ministries provides practical support and community-building opportunities for foster families throughout Middle Tennessee. Programs include resource distribution, encouragement events, and family-focused gatherings designed to strengthen relationships and reduce foster family burnout. A key component of this program is monthly Parents Night Out events, which provide safe childcare and community support for foster parents while children participate in supervised activities. These programs serve approximately 7590 children each month, helping foster families maintain stability and continue caring for vulnerable children long-term. In addition this program also provides meals for foster families in crisis situations, gifts for youth on birthdays and other holidays.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68.4%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 68.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.