The Brookwood Community

Legal name: The Brookwood Community Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741587672
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Brookshire, TX, US
Phone
(281)-375-2100
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Specialized Education Institutions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,616,490
Expenses
$20,261,840
Assets
$16,222,299
Liabilities
$2,511,940

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Vivian Shudde (Executive Director)
  • Greg Hubert (CEO)
  • Yvonne Streit (Executive Director Emeritus)

Highest reported compensation

  • Vivian Shudde (Executive Director): $221,465 total reported compensation
  • Carol Ostlind Thornburg (Chief Advancement Officer): $189,072 total reported compensation
  • Bill Rondon (Chief Operating Officer): $174,194 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Changing the way the world thinks about adults with disabilities.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Brookwood Community is a residential and day program for adults with disabilities. Brookwood serves 125 "Citizens" (adults with disabilities) in our residential program and 125 in our day program. Our goal is to provide an environment that allows our Citizens to fulfill their God-given purpose in life. We provide citizen-centric opportunities for spiritual, social, and vocational development. Our 485-acre Community consists of specially designed neuro-considerate homes, workshops, a worship center, a horticulture center, stores, and a cafe. See Schedule OWe continue to expand our citizen-centric opportunities by adding educational programs to all workshops, including shipping, placing orders, pricing products for sale, checking in deliveries, etc. Our Citizens are growing and adding value to our Community daily as they learn new skills and interact with the public in our retail stores and cafe, turning diners and shoppers into Brookwood Community supporters. Our Citizens are fully engaged in their work throughout the campus. Our Citizens are the hands of God as they help each other and help change the way our many visitors and shoppers view adults with disabilities.Our recreational programs, which include sports, fitness, fine arts, and ministry in service to others, along with their work, allow our Citizens to live meaningful, purposeful lives.

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 89% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.1M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.