Bridgeport Rescue Mission

Legal name: Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
061362705
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bridgeport, CT, USA
Phone
2033334087
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,191,409
Expenses
$8,764,905
Assets
$22,231,653
Liabilities
$15,371,081

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE FULLERTON (CEO (PART YEAR), INTERIM DIR. OF DEV.)
  • RHONDA NEAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHAEL COBB (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $164,793 total reported compensation
  • DR MICHAEL DEMASI (DIRECTOR OF RESOURCE CENTER): $142,988 total reported compensation
  • KENYA MOALES (DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES): $129,993 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Since 1993, we’ve been walking alongside neighbors facing hunger, homelessness, and addiction—offering more than just meals or shelter, but dignity, healing, and hope. Grounded in Christ’s love and driven by a call to serve, our mission has always been to meet people where they are and help them build a path toward a brighter future. Every program, every meal, every prayer shared is part of a deeper story: one of transformation, restoration, and the power of a community that refuses to look away. Our Mission To fight poverty from the inside out by embracing people with the compassion of Christ, offering hope and healing for a changed life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Men's and women's emergency shelter, addiction recovery and supportive housing: bridgeport rescue mission (brm) demonstrates the love of god to the hungry, homeless, and addicted throughout fairfield county, ct 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In fiscal year ending 2025 brm's shelter and recovery program offered 45,645 nights of shelter to homeless men and women, while offering hot meals, clean clothing and showers. (continued on schedule o) brm's faith-based new life program served over 60 men and women in fiscal year ending 2025 through a residential curriculum of counseling, case management, work therapy and 15 hours of classroom education weekly, focused on spiritual formation, addiction recovery and life-skills training. Men and women completing these programs may participate in brm's supportive housing program, which provided over 50 men and women in fiscal year ending 2025 with transitional housing, case management and educational and employment opportunities prior to their transition to independent living. The covid pandemic forced the mission to discontinue traditional emergency shelter services for the homeless, when we relaunched our traditional 25 bed emergency shelter into an 8 bed, covid protocol, and socially distanced longer term program for chronically homeless men. This pilot program from 2020 has now become a permanent program of services provided to the homeless in coastal Connecticut. We continued our addiction recovery programs within very strict covid quarantine protocols, throughout fiscal year 2025 and provided a safe space for nearly 140 men and women on the path to recovery. We maintained a residential program curriculum of counseling, case management, work therapy and 15 hours of classroom education weekly, focused on spiritual formation, addiction recovery and life-skills training. Men and women completing these programs may participate in brm's supportive housing program, which provided over 70 men and women in fiscal year ending 2025 with transitional housing, case management and educational and employment opportunities prior to their transition to independent living.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: -7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $480K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.