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← BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$8,396,269
Total expenses
$8,590,265
Contributions and grants received
$7,923,060
Grants paid
$1,742,795
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$144,119
Other revenue
$329,090
Total assets, end of year
$22,894,595
Total liabilities, end of year
$15,477,115
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$7,417,480
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,127,765
Management and general expenses
$1,279,434
Fundraising expenses
$1,183,066
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,127,765

Program services were 71.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $2,598

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $484,169

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $17,000

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $645,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $6,774,293

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $1,744,158

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $101,568 · excluded $101,568

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets $410,462

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $367,911

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $42,551

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $42,551 · excluded $42,551

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $99,400

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $484,169

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $127,936

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$28,536 · excluded -$28,536

  • 11a · Other revenue: Loan Forgiveness

    total $229,360 · excluded $229,360

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $128,266 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $128,266

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $357,626

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $39,881 · program services $39,881

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $1,702,914 · program services $1,702,914

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $208,016 · program services $151,583 · management and general $36,533 · fundraising $19,900

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,999,785 · program services $2,208,271 · management and general $491,298 · fundraising $300,216

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $43,146 · program services $28,555 · management and general $12,358 · fundraising $2,233

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $406,101 · program services $274,669 · management and general $104,332 · fundraising $27,100

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $234,243 · program services $172,536 · management and general $38,890 · fundraising $22,817

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $14,309 · management and general $14,309

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $49,330 · management and general $49,330

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $34,806 · fundraising $34,806

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $180,847 · program services $4,862 · management and general $73,015 · fundraising $102,970

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $535,360 · management and general $190,247 · fundraising $345,113

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $425,205 · program services $157,546 · management and general $51,424 · fundraising $216,235

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $63,001 · program services $2,824 · management and general $32,253 · fundraising $27,924

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,232,702 · program services $1,098,736 · management and general $83,051 · fundraising $50,915

  • 17 · Travel

    total $37,230 · program services $10,865 · management and general $5,257 · fundraising $21,108

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $2,460 · management and general $214 · fundraising $2,246

  • 20 · Interest

    total $71,586 · program services $5,654 · management and general $65,814 · fundraising $118

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $94,020 · program services $68,513 · management and general $16,512 · fundraising $8,995

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,894 · program services $768 · management and general $3,126

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food Expenses

    total $193,679 · program services $192,493 · management and general $1,186

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $17,750 · program services $7,095 · management and general $10,285 · fundraising $370

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $192,521 · end of year $266,556

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $8,733 · end of year $41,435

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $303,738 · end of year $404,997

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $10,155,934 · end of year $10,155,934

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $483,592 · end of year $530,396

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $41,850 · end of year $119,363

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,757,882

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,010,599

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,141,444 · end of year $747,283

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $10,820,897 · end of year $10,628,631

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $297,556 · end of year $251,611

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $3,495,720 · end of year $3,250,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $11,759,489 · end of year $11,975,504

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $7,200,530 · end of year $6,850,407

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $395,414 · end of year $567,073

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The focus of Bridgeport Rescue Mission is to embrace the urban poor with the compassion of Christ, giving hope and healing for a changed life. Bridgeport Rescue Mission demonstrates the love of God to the hungry, the homeless, and the addicted throughout Fairfield County.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To demonstrate the love of God to the hungry, homeless and addicted. Our goal is to help people achieve what they were designed by God to achieve.

  • Food and Clothing: In fiscal year ending 2024 BRM's food and clothing program provided over 1,266,989 meals to those in need, as well as thousands of winter coats, blankets and clothes and shoes. Bridgeport Rescue Mission served as Coastal Connecticut's primary food distribution organization during the COVID pandemic. While we did not close our doors during COVID, we saw a complete transformation of our food distribution operation that more than doubled (to nearly 14,000) the number of struggling and food insecure families we supported. This level of food distribution and reach into the community held steady through the entire fiscal 2024 year.

    Expenses $4,044,325 · Grants $1,150,245

  • Men's and Women's Emergency Shelter, Addiction Recovery and Supportive Housing: Bridgeport Rescue Mission (BRM) demonstrates the love of God to the hungry, homeless, and addicted throughout Fairfield County, CT 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In fiscal year ending 2024 BRM's shelter and recovery program offered 45,645 nights of shelter to homeless men and women, while offering hot meals, clean clothing and showers. BRM's faith-based New Life Program served over 60 men and women in fiscal year ending 2024 through a residential curriculum of counseling, case management, work therapy and 15 hours of classroom education weekly, focused on spiritual formation, addiction recovery and life-skills training. Men and women completing these programs may participate in BRM's Supportive Housing Program, which provided over 50 men and women in fiscal year ending 2024 with transitional housing, case management and educational and employment opportunities prior to their transition to independent living. The COVID pandemic forced the Mission to discontinue traditional emergency shelter services for the homeless, when we relaunched our traditional 25 bed emergency shelter into an 8 bed, COVID protocol, and socially distanced longer term program for chronically homeless men. This pilot program from 2020 has now become a permanent program of services provided to the homeless in coastal Connecticut. We continued our addiction recovery programs within very strict COVID quarantine protocols, throughout fiscal year 2024 and provided a safe space for nearly 91 men and women on the path to recovery amidst the pandemic crisis. We maintained a residential program curriculum of counseling, case management, work therapy and 15 hours of classroom education weekly, focused on spiritual formation, addiction recovery and life-skills training. Men and women completing these programs may participate in BRM's Supportive Housing Program, which provided over 70 men and women in fiscal year ending 2024 with transitional housing, case management and educational and employment opportunities prior to their transition to independent living.

    Expenses $1,960,885 · Grants $557,694

  • Residential Program for Women and Children in Crisis: BRM's residential program for women and children in crisis provides the essentials of safe lodging, nourishing food, needed clothing, life and job skills and case management for displaced mothers with children, with special attention given to the needs of the participating children. The program welcomed its first families in February of 2023. We are currently housing 12 moms and 22 children.

    Expenses $122,555 · Grants $34,856

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Albert P Carey

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ed Morgan

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Joy Topazian Moore

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.5 related

  • Robert Fiscus

    Director - Finance Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.5 related

  • Dave Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Donald Hannibal

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.5 related

  • Jillaine Dellis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kerry Stratton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lydee Hummel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mark Curtis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Michael Voytek

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 0.5 related

  • Paul Hiller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jean Correa

    Chief Accounting Officer

    Total calculated
    $106,577
    From this org
    $100,299
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,278
    Hours/week
    45 + 0.5 related

  • Lawrence Fullerton

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $100,508
    From this org
    $97,137
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,371
    Hours/week
    30

  • Kenya Moales

    Director of Human Resources

    Total calculated
    $127,830
    From this org
    $107,563
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,267
    Hours/week
    45

  • Lisa Chester

    Director of Communications

    Total calculated
    $100,867
    From this org
    $100,138
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $729
    Hours/week
    40

  • MaryAnn Gardner

    Director of Programs

    Total calculated
    $106,405
    From this org
    $100,947
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,458
    Hours/week
    45

  • Michael Cobb

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $166,806
    From this org
    $115,112
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $51,694
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,716
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $396
    Deferred
    $3,544
    Nontaxable benefits
    $48,150
    Filer's total
    $166,806

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • BRM Support Corporation

    501(c)(3) · Supporting Organization · CT · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
11 March 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202510709349301446

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