Btc Building Brighter Futures
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260273824
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8168424975
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $409,319
- Expenses
- $183,412
- Assets
- $2,296,279
- Liabilities
- $345,445
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Patrick Danley (Chair): $22,817 total reported compensation
- Keron Hopkins (Treasurer): $2,036 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist at-risk job seekers, ex-offenders, the unemployed and the homeless establish stability through career and job training, skills enhancement and behavior modification, resume service, transportation support and housing services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Housing services: Increase in housing demands has caused a direct focus to increase single family & multi-unit acquisitions to meet the ongoing demand. Services were expanded into home location services to assist citizens with criminal, evictions, and employment challenges to enhance the housing service sector of the organization. Transportation services: Vehicle acquisitions decreased from prior years due to the closing of the Auto Donation Center and the inability to obtain another discount car vendor has yet to surface. Prior to 2022, budget friendly auto pricing allowed the organization to continue helping families meet the need to acquire cost friendly, safe and dependable transportation. Job placement assistance and community services: Increased due to the lack of in-demand skills and transportation of job seekers. Community service sector has increased by 12% due to city judicial mandates that continue to give rulings to community service hours rather than incarceration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.52; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.