South Bend Bridge Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990528163
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Mishawaka, IN, USA
Phone
5742556613
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$63,900
Expenses
$54,300
Assets
$44,591

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Thomas Hebron (President)
  • Robert Werner (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Thomas Rossow (Treasurer)
  • Thomas Hebron (President)
  • Robert Werner (Vice-President)

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

The South Bend Bridge Foundation's mission is to teach and support the play of duplicate contract bridge and other types of contract bridge games, and related activities which enhance brain activity and social interaction, especially for seniors. Further, said organization shall support one or more of the American Contract Bridge League's games which raise funds for the non-profit Grassroots Fund, the Longest Day (for Alzheimer's research) and the Youth Education Fund (to expand the game of bridge to young persons).

What it reported doing in 2025

Held approximately 50 classes during which our organization taught persons from the South Bend Forever Learning Institute, our club memebers and other interested persons person, how to play, or play better the game of bridge. The instructors worked without pay, and students paid a nominalor no fees for the lessons.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 122.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.