One to One of Lynden
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910890811
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Lynden, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3605108169
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,041
- Expenses
- $90,272
- Assets
- $817,294
- Liabilities
- $1,175
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kevin Alvis (House Manager): $23,350 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bridges of Hope has been operating a transformational home in Northern Whatcom County since 2014. The Bridges of Hope home provides a Christ-centered transformational community. We help men released from jail, prison, and substance abuse rehabilitation centers to get back on their feet and start living productive lives. Members of our program live in an atmosphere of trust, security, and mutual respect. We provide transformational discipleship through mentoring, vocational and life skills training, and educational opportunities. Our goal is to facilitate holistic restoration so that the men in our program graduate to become responsible members of society.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Bridges of Hope experienced a year of tremendous blessing and growth. The organization was able to hire a house manager, providing greater structure, stability and expanding the ministry's capacity to serve men in recovery. Bridges of Hope provided a safe, structured residential program for eighteen men during the year, offering Christ-centered guidance, life-skills training, and accountability as they worked toward lasting sobriety and restored relationships. In 2025 BOH also broke ground on a new Resource Center to open in 2026, which will include space for classes, counseling, and vocational readiness. Through ongoing community support and volunteer involvement, Bridges of Hope continued to see lives transformed by faith, hope, and purposeful living.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.05; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.