Bridgeway House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331027254
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413450805
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,833,256
- Expenses
- $4,327,901
- Assets
- $734,311
- Liabilities
- $1,016,601
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sally Bennett Sherman (Executive Director)
- Brandon Gibson (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Sally Bennett Sherman (Executive Director): $66,615 total reported compensation
- Joshua Derosia (Finance Manager): $18,826 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bridgeway House offers treatments, developmental therapies, enrichment courses, and support for children and families experiencing autism and related abilities, regardless of income. This includes in-home therapy, dietary programs, intensive classroom-based schooling and integrative social and support groups for children and families affected by autism in Oregon.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social Groups - Bridgeway House offers social groups during after-school hours to help students learn social skills and emotional self-regulation through integrated teaching and support with emphasis on building lasting connections and friendships between students. Special interest social groups, such as the ever popular Minecraft social group, have also been developed to bring students together. These groups allow students to communicate and deepen friendships over their shared passions. Most families participating in the social groups program receive a scholarship and the staffing is relatively heavy. Grants are written annually to help cover those scholarships and program expenses. Along with specific social groups, there are also summer camps offered from June through August and game nights most Friday evenings during the academic year. The social group program follows curriculum which helps children and young adults create lasting social bonds in a safe low-sensory environment, while under the guidance of trained facilitators. Other services offered that fall under the social groups program are SHAPE (Sexual Health And Personal Exploration), the annual play production, holiday family events, and the teen dances. This program was originally developed due to COVID and has been integrated into the programs in accomplishment one. 43 individuals were served in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.38; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.