Mel Bruechert Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 393571010
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9498879340
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,015
- Expenses
- $35,899
- Assets
- $36,881
- Liabilities
- $5,765
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELANIE BRUECHERT (PRESIDENT/CEO)
People named in this filing
- MELANIE BRUECHERT (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- SILVIA VARGAS (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS/TREASURER)
- RYAN MANNE (DIRECTOR OF MINISTRY RECORDS)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mel bruechert ministries brings christ's love to costa mesa to the ends of earth. Outreach is to local youth and surrounding adults, to meet spiritual, physical, and basic needs. We pastor several youth homes, reach parents, schools and seminarians. We provide meals, bible study, change culture, and stretch the church to meet the local and nations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pastoral support: three youth homes by bringing church services directly to orphans, meeting practical needs, and helping develop responsible citizens who serve their communities. The long-term goal is to reach all youth homes in the costa mesa and newport beach areas with continued support to the aged out foster adults, as well as spiritual guidance and strength to staff.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.1% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.