Brother Bryan Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630322672
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Phone
- (205) 322-0092
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,709,529
- Expenses
- $1,441,294
- Assets
- $5,996,105
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVE DRESHER (PRESIDENT)
- DUNCAN HULSEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JIM ETHEREDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JIM ETHEREDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $94,898 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brother Bryan Mission seeks to minister to the economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished in the central Alabama area. Over the years the Mission changed its name to Brother Bryan Mission and moved three times before coming to the current location at 1616 Second Avenue North. Today, Brother Bryan Mission is a 65 bed facility using the resources of food, clothing, shelter and other intangible assets to minister the gospel of Jesus Christ to those in need of help and healing. brother bryan. When you click the "Proceed to PayPal" button below, you will be forwarded to PayPal's web site to enter your payment information and complete your donation. Thanks for your support of Brother Bryan Mission! Please select One-Time Gift or Monthly Recurring Gift above. Gift Designation.
What it reported doing in 2025
The new life fellowship (nlf) program is a nine-month christian recovery program which seeks to address the issues that cause homelessness and the barriers that hinder one from returning to a productive life. The nlf program is divided into four phases. Satisfactory progress has to be made in order to graduate into the next phase. A review committee of senior staff members meets every two months to determine if advancement is warranted and a weekly meeting is held to report on general progress. In the last phase a client is helped by key volunteers from the local business community to prepare a resume, apply and find placement in a suitable, sustainable-wage job. During 2025, 172 men particiated in the new life fellowship program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - 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 filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.16; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $159K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.