Child Bridge Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273382066
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bigfork, MT, USA
Phone
4068372247
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,205,530
Expenses
$3,820,493
Assets
$8,249,343
Liabilities
$637,323

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR JENNI LEACH (PRESIDENT)
  • BRYAN DOUGLASS (VICE PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
  • ERIC BASYE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ERIC BASYE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $203,753 total reported compensation
  • DAN MINOR (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DONOR R): $162,910 total reported compensation
  • KATIE BRIEN (DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION): $110,711 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Child bridge finds and equips families for children who have suffered abuse and neglect. Additionally, our work supports foster, adoptive, and kinship families who are caring for vulnerable children.

What it reported doing in 2025

Equipping foster/kinship/adoptive families. In simplest terms, "equipping" means that we educate caregivers, we coach parents, we support families, and we connect people to resources that help them thrive as a foster family. Because when families thrive, children in their care can thrive as well. Child bridge has a team of parent coaches who serve families in all 56 of Montana's counties. In 2025, child bridge offered monthly education/training programs, small group book studies, conferences, 1:1 parent coaching, and more. In 2025, there were 2,206 instances of adult caregivers engaging in in-person services. (25% increase over 2024). Native family services. In 2025, child bridge launched a new initiative to address the vast overrepresentation of native children in foster care. This program will support non-native foster families who care for native children and native families who provide foster or kinship care to native children. 2025 focused on community building with tribes, listening sessions, small group consultations and one-on-one meetings with foster caregivers; kinship providers; tribe members and elders; native advocates; state child welfare workers; and more. A pilot launch is planned for early 2026 in the billings-yellowstone county area and on the crow and northern cheyenne reservations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.7% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.