The Bridge Center for Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812252719
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2253081032
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,176,780
- Expenses
- $6,947,133
- Assets
- $5,417,670
- Liabilities
- $614,868
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Charlotte Claiborne (Exec Director): $136,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Bridge Center for Hope was formed to create and manage programs for people with mental illness and substance use challenges in East Baton Rouge Parish. The Bridge Center's purpose is to operate a mental health and substance use treatment center that would allow citizens and first responders the opportunity to divert people with behavioral health issues to treatment instead of jail or emergency departments.Programs and services at the Bridge Center for Hope will include crisis intervention and stabilization services, Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and medical detoxification. It will also utilize a care management team that will help provide navigation and linkage for guests to outpatient services and appropriate community resources post discharge from the facility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 21 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $6.2M reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.