Bridges Safehouse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752864224
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cedar Hill, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4692724441
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $458,718
- Expenses
- $416,430
- Assets
- $898,132
- Liabilities
- $201,150
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chandra Johnson (Executive Director)
- Lisa Noey (President)
- Shana Nix (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Chandra Johnson (Executive Director): $54,819 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Christian ministry providing safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. Bridges Safehouse seeks to encourage, empower and equip pregnant, homeless women in crisis, and their children, by providing shelter, resources, life-skills training, and mentoring while they are in our care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Bridges Family Resource center is a vital hub, supplying diapers, wipes, and baby essentials, car seats, strollers and bathtubs to help families thrive. Modern day families' makeup varies from single moms and dads to grandparents and married couples taking care of young children. In today's economy purchasing diapers for more than one child can cause a family hardship. This does not include the diapers needed for daycare. Our Bridges Family Resource Center supplies the immediate needs of families, preventing a crisis that could lead to not having gas for work or food for the week. Currently there is not a government program to supplement diapers. Families miss at least 5 days a month from work due to not having diapers. We help offset that burden with baby essentials such as wipes, food, formula, baby furniture, baby clothing, maternity clothing, hygiene items and food. Solely in 2025, Bridges Family Resource Center improved the livelihoods and well-being of over 416 families and 536 children in the southern sector of Dallas and surrounding areas by providing over 142K diapers and 4.3K wipes. Bridges Family Resource Center meets immediate needs in the communities of Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Desoto, Lancaster, South Oak Cliff, Midlothian, Garland, McKinney, Forney, Richardson and Waxahachie. Bridges Family Resource Center continually serves our clients with the following services: parenting classes, counseling, GED, college or trade school opportunities and money management. This support system provides families with confidence to be resilient, strengthen relationships between parents and children, qualify for better paying jobs, and possible entrepreneurship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $275K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.