Building Bridges of Hope Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
743253298
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Pinckney, MI, USA
Phone
2482077988
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$173,925
Expenses
$155,546
Assets
$22,168
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Richard Nowakowski (President and Treasurer)
  • Jessica Carlile (Board Member and Co Executive Director)
  • Adam Carlile (Board Member and Co Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Richard Nowakowski (President and Treasurer)
  • Joseph LaVigne (Secretary)
  • A J Fossel (Board Member)

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

Delivery of health care, education and nutrition services to rural DR communities in ElLano, Pina and Commendor communities. Use of volunteer groups to deliver care, food, education services. Support for installation of rural water services and clinical delivery space .

What it reported doing in 2024

Delivery of Medical, nutrition and education services to approximately 1300 rural residents in ElLano, Pina and Commendor communities in Dominican Republic. Services are delivered through mobile outreach clinics , nutrition supplement programs, medicine distribution and educational outreach services. Services are delivered by outreach volunteer teams and BBOH team members. With COVID services were more limited in 2023 than prior years. In 2024 , volunteer group trips were increasing, allowing the delivery of more clinic visits, med deliveries and birthing education. Planning for rural, local water transport systems is beginning.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 29%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 32.4%; rating input score 32

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -32.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 29% of revenue deployed · 32.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 29/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.