Brothers Building A Better Nation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852939456
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9734345081
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $512,126
- Expenses
- $475,131
- Assets
- $142,019
- Liabilities
- $232,186
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Quadeer Porter (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Quadeer Porter (President): $4,308 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brothers Building A Better Nation (BBABN) empowers individuals who were born male or identify as male to embrace healing, cultivate self-expression, and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood as a foundation for thriving families and communities. Through integrated supports in mental health, mentorship, health education, advocacy, and wraparound services, we equip individuals to heal, grow, and lead.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organizational & Program Expansion: BBABN strengthened its service capacity and community partnerships through expanded Medicaid-funded services, collaboration with Newark Public Schools, and philanthropic support, including recognition through an Impact100 Essex Equity Grant. These developments increased BBABN's capacity to provide accessible behavioral health and youth-development services throughout Essex County.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.63; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 70.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 51.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $246K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.