Bridges Pointe, Inc.
Legal name: Bridges Pointe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562085686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- Phone
- 919-323-8443
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,100
- Expenses
- $52,588
- Assets
- $-17,697
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHENIKA RICHARDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHENIKA RICHARDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $36,204 total reported compensation
- JESSICA MILLER (COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COORD): $1,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Bridges Pointe, Inc. is to promote the development of supportive services for individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD): to empower them for independent living: and to enhance the quality of their social and economic lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization was able to get funding from other nonprofits, foundations, individuals, and businesses in furtherance of the organizations mission.
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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.3%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $87.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: -0.34; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -33.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -181.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 52.3% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.