The Bridge of Southern New Mexico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850443321
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5756462527
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,308
- Expenses
- $208,043
- Assets
- $128,199
- Liabilities
- $4,992
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BETH WILLIAMS (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BETH WILLIAMS (CEO): $108,900 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 bridge of southern New Mexico facilitates collaboration and leverages resources between public and private sectors to support educational excellence and optimize the county's workforce.
What it reported doing in 2025
The bridge of southern New Mexico is solely focused on playing the role of the backbone in a collective impact initiative that connects the educational, workforce and economic development assets of dona ana county to increase high school graduation rates and create seamless pathways for students from high school to college and/or career. Since the work began, graduation rates have increased from 51% in 2007 (prior to the bridge's formation) to 83% in 2020. As a result of this increase, the county can project increased incomes from these graduates of 6 to 10 million annually. The bridge has partnered with and connected 25 public and private sector partners. The first outcome of the bridge was the launch of the arrowhead park early college high school, which continues to experience near 100% graduation rates. The school and the business-led education-focused partnership has continued to serve as a model for the state. The bridge continues to be a champion for dual credit courses, which can be directly correlated to the state's rising graduation rates and confirmed by countless research studies. The bridge is now working to address the second of its two goals -to build a skilled and ready workforce for the county, and is currently leading a collaboration of partners in implementing a plan to guide future efforts in the county and region.
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 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- 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: 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -118.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.