Ohio · Nonprofit
BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,783 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($205,413). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Brethren Retirement Community does
Mission
Guided by christian values we provide exceptional service to all entrusted to our care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
On december 31, 2024, mhco entered into a member substitution agreement ("agreement") with brc. As a result of the agreement, brc became the sole corporate member of mhco and its wholly-owned subsidiary.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Brethren Retirement Community, which is a licensed home the aging in the state of ohio, operates a retirement community consisting of a 80 bed long-term nursing care facility, a 160 unit congregate living facility and 146 independent living units. The organization provided 25,701 inpatient days of care in 2024 in its nursing care facility.
$18,519,681 spent$20,904,608 earned by the program91% of program spendingThe brethren home community services, llc (a disregarded activity) provides non-medical home care and other community based services.
$153,110 spent$115,451 earned by the program1% of program spendingBrethren home management services, llc (a disregarded activity) was created in 2011 for the purpose of offering management services to other christian retirement communities.
$1,689,882 spent$1,452,167 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,362,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $31M to $38M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Fred Bernhard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $200 → $17k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 41% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $76k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $631k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$631k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Brethren Home Community Services LLC · disregarded
- Brethren Home Management Services LLC · disregarded
- Mennonite Memorial Home · exempt
- Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio Fund Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY?
- BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,783 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($205,413). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $291,783 in grants to BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $205,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRETHREN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing