Building Bridges
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844533293
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Danville, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3197548421
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $180,622
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENISE JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DENISE JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- DANE FEENSTRA (TREASURER)
- DARREN GRIMSHAW (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help individuals, in poverty to build a support system, learn tools and concepts to build a sustainable future, and as a community to tackle the barriers at systemic level work on solutions and support individuals as they work towards sustainability.
What it reported doing in 2024
Getting ahead workshop is an 18 week class that teaches individuals in poverty tools, concepts and helps them build a healthy support system, provides childcare, a meal and transportation. The organization provides follow-up one on one with each individual as they build their resources. After class the organization holds monthly meetings that provide resources, learning opportunities and ongoing support to graduates, mentors and children in the program. There are approximately 150 volunteers for each getting ahead workshop. The organization has a book a month club that is part of the workshop ensuring children get a new book a month to develop language resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -30.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -53.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.