Broken Wall Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471865416
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2025702608
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,056
- Expenses
- $253,023
- Assets
- $149,042
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- RONNIE WILLOUGHBY (Lead Pastor): $80,000 total reported compensation
- EMILY ISBELL (Minister): $52,000 total reported compensation
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 Broken Wall is to love God and love our neighbors in West Baltimore.
What it reported doing in 2024
We invest in the improvement of our community for the benefit of our neighbors in West Baltimore. We have improved our community and neighbors in various ways. We invested in the youth of our community through a weekly open community time where 20-30 youth come to have a meal, play basketball and bingo, and are safe and socially and emotionally well. Twice weekly we ran a business, mindfulness and fitness program called THRIVE for 15-20, which taught youth how to start their own business and kept them active, thus investing in their physical, cognitive, and social emotional well-being. We also hosted an outdoor club for youth called Fernway which invited 10-15 youth to discover the outdoors through adventure and instruction. We also invested in individuals and families in our community who had basic needs such as shelter, clothing, or food. We continued to work alongside our local school through investment into their 90 staff and the playground which needed repair. We supported the grassroots school PTO in their family engagement work with the families of the 500 students. We also began coalition building work with 5-10 similar community organizations in our community for the goal of working together to eradicate child poverty in our city.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $240K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.