Community Bridge

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933887316
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-PF 2023
Location
Saint Albans, WV, USA
Phone
3047276991
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$229,400
Expenses
$136,520
Assets
$175,200
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Chris Kimbro (President)

People named in this filing

  • Chris Kimbro (President)
  • Jesse Smith (Treasurer)
  • David Young (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Community Bridges mission is to build strong partnerships among churches businesses hospitals schools nonprofits foster networks and the sober living community to meet basic needs and provide life skills education for low-income households individuals experiencing homelessness foster families and those affected by substance use disorders in West Virginiastrengthening mental and physical health while demonstrating the love of Jesus in action.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family Resource Center Program The Family Resource Center is Community Bridges most significant program service and primary point of distribution for essential resources to families and individuals experiencing financial hardship homelessness and crisis throughout West Virginia. During the reporting year the Family Resource Center distributed $2,292,000 in in-kind donated goods including clothing household items furniture hygiene products baby supplies and other basic necessities to families in need. Through partnerships with churches businesses nonprofits and community agencies the Family Resource Center ensures that donated resources are efficiently collected stored and distributed at no cost to recipients. Services are provided with dignity and compassion helping stabilize households reduce food insecurity and address immediate survival needs that would otherwise create barriers to employment education health and family stability. The Family Resource Center serves thousands of individuals annually and acts as a hub connecting families to additional support services including employment resources parenting support and referrals to partner agencies. By meeting basic needs and reducing financial strain this program plays a critical role in improving mental and physical well-being preventing deeper crises and strengthening families and communities. The scale and impact of this program directly support Community Bridges charitable mission and justify its tax-exempt purpose.

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

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 40
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 61
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 72.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 60.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 42 current checks pass · 8 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesLegal column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.