Fresh Brewed Ministries Inc Dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260610861
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8438089130
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,541
- Expenses
- $164,140
- Assets
- $1,531
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathryn Curran (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kathryn Curran (Executive Director)
- Katlyn Alarcon Vandy (Treasurer)
- Cedric White (Chairman)
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
Our mission is to offer a safe and welcoming place for people in need. We help connect community members with important resources. Our shared public space encourages dignity and inclusion, and we aim to build trust through kindness, hope, and a fresh cup of coffee. We support people directly by providing food, clothing, and toiletries to those facing challenges with housing, food, health, or finances. We also offer help through our State Identification, Suspended Coffee, and Food Is Free-MB programs. As a day and resource center, we connect people with physical and mental health care, recovery resources like detox and rehab, local housing organizations, and job and resume support. Our space is also open for music and art, recovery and advocacy meetings, church and youth groups, clubs, networking, educational training, hiring events, family gatherings, and other community events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Suspended Coffee Program Coffee means something different to everyone. For us, it stands for community, kindness, and connection. Many people find comfort and a sense of belonging over a cup of coffee, so we take part in the suspended coffee program. When you buy coffee here, you can choose to pay for an extra cup. Our baristas record these as "suspended" coffees, which anyone in need can claim. This could be someone experiencing homelessness, a student having a tough time, a parent struggling to make ends meet, someone who forgot their wallet, a job seeker, or anyone else who could use a cup. Also, at our shop, if you can? t afford a cup of coffee, you can still get one free each day, even if there aren? t any suspended coffees available. This is our way of spreading kindness and treating everyone with dignity. From July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, we gave away 18,044 suspended cups of coffee. If every cup had been paid for by others at $2.50 each, that would have been $45,110 in sales. In reality, community members paid for 1,695 of those cups ($4,237.50), and we covered the remaining $40,872.50 to support our community. As we work to spread kindness, remember: ? Suspended Coffees is for everyone. It is about sharing kindness wherever it is needed. For this reason, we ask you not to judge. We cannot tell a person? s situation just by looking at them. If someone asks, then they? re in need ? no r? sum? required.? (https://suspendedcoffees.com/how-it-works/)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 6%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -42.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6% of revenue deployed · 6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.