Bridge Disability Ministries
Legal name: Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911383241
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Redmond, WA, United States
- Phone
- 425-885-1006
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,384,604
- Expenses
- $2,428,813
- Assets
- $2,265,411
- Liabilities
- $1,253,970
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brenne Schario (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Brenne Schario (Executive Director): $78,231 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 Disability Ministries exists to end social isolation among people with disabilities. One of our biggest contributions to the Bridge operating budget comes from individual donations. Most of our funding comes from people who donate cash to support our mission. Thanks to our volunteers and church supporters, we served more than 2,100 people in 2025 with a small paid staff of less than 15 full-time-equivalent employees. In 2025, 486 volunteers donated invaluable time to Bridge. Jackie has served as an Administrative Assistant to business leaders and treasurer on the board of a nonprofit. She used her organizational skills and interest in supporting community leaders in her position as Bridge’s Administrative Support Supervisor before bringing her effervescent personality and passion for serving those in need to her role as leader of our Spiritual Connections Program. On staff...
What it reported doing in 2024
2,711 people received medical and mobility equipment. 218 friends with disabilities and caregivers attended social and fellowship events. Services were provided to 45 guardianship clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -1.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.