Bridge House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841440292
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034428300
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,688,753
- Expenses
- $4,796,323
- Assets
- $19,198,161
- Liabilities
- $2,982,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Green (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Melissa Green (CEO): $135,220 total reported compensation
- John Trejo (Executive Chef): $125,420 total reported compensation
- Susan Rincon (Finance Director): $105,561 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bridge House's Mission is to address immediate survival needs of individuals experiencing homelessness and provide resources which lead to employment, housing, personal stability and healing. (Continued on Schedule O)
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Table Kitchen: Community Table Kitchen demonstrates what is possible when mission and business marry. Opened in 2013, and often described as the most dynamic kitchen in Boulder, Community Table Kitchen transforms lives one bite at a time. We have a triple bottom line. First, at Community Table Kitchen we produce meals for hungry people who have no other access to food. We prepare meals that are healthy, nutritious and balanced by cooking in real-time, from scratch. The organization partners with the local food bank, Community Food Share, to access donated ingredients and offers the community Table Meal program to serve over 125,320 meals a year to people experiencing homelessness. Second, Community Table Kitchen creates employment opportunities by providing jobs and job training for Ready to Work trainees. We offer meaningful paid work that builds a resume and real-world work experience. Through a mix of on-the-job and classroom training, Community Table Kitchen trainees are taught knife skills, food prep and production, and safe food handling. Trainees complete the ServSafe Certification prior to graduating into a full-time food service job. Third, under the leadership of executive chef John Trejo, Community Table Kitchen runs three market-based lines of business - catering, wholesale and cafe operations. We offer customers competitive, top notch quality and service. Through these ventures, Community Table Kitchen earns revenue to support operations and our social mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: 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: 44.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.