Brookmeade Community Foundation Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

The brookmeade community foundation, through its fundraising efforts provides significant support to the baptist home and its new day program. The baptist home is a non-profit corporation whose purpose and mission is to enchance the sanctity of life for the aged by promoting and providing quality care in a loving environment that supports their social, medical and spirtual needs while encouraging independence and self-development. The baptist home is one of the premiere long-term care facilities in dutchess county, receiving the highest honor of a 5 star rating from the center of medicare and medicaid services. The baptist home has an award winning and innovative activities program new day (nurturing everyone with diverse activities year-round). New day is an innovative and therapeutic program unique to the baptist home at the community at brookmeade. It is a person-centered activities program providing a structured and nurturing environment administered by trained professionals which offers partcipants the liberty to pursue independent leisure activities. This program allows our residents to fill their days with the expression of feelings and creativity, freedom of movement, and the opportunity to exercise individual choice. New day has incorporated art therapy and "music & memory", a nationally recognized program found to be effective in reconnecting those with dementia to the work around them. The positive and measurable results of new day have resulted in -reduced use of psycho-pharmaceutical medications - fewer incidents and accidents- reduced use of restraints to 0% - increased resident independence, mobility, communication, socialization, healthy weights, and positive interpersonal relationships. All of these factors positively impact the quality of life experienced by our residents.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 1.7%; rating input score 2
• Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 98.7%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 97.19; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 207.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -16.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings