Brigance Brigade Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454718969
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Owings Mills, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108782030
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $456,736
- Expenses
- $512,442
- Assets
- $760,795
- Liabilities
- $77,452
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OJ BRIGANCE (PRESIDENT)
- CHANDA BRIGANCE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- OJ BRIGANCE (PRESIDENT)
- CHANDA BRIGANCE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANNA VITALE LYBROOK (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the brigance brigade foundation is to equip, encourage and empower people living with als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis); we strive to improve the quality of life for them and their families by providing needed equipment, resource guidance and support services.
What it reported doing in 2024
The brigance brigade foundation provides resources for people who are caring for a family member or friend who has been diagnosed with als through chanda's caregiver corner. The foundation partnered with a yoga instructor to develop caregiver focused mindful movement videos which are available on its website. These videos are intended to promote the pillars of chanda's caregiver corner, which will help to improve the health and well-being of caregivers in our community. The co-founder of the foundation has written several childrens books in a collection called chan is a caregiver. A portion of the proceeds from these books are donated to the foundation to support chanda's caregiver corner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 58th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -12.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 60.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $308K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.