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BROTHER BRYAN MISSION

BROTHER BRYAN MISSION (Alabama) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,283,795 to it, the largest being THE ARLINGTON FOUNDATION ($1,911,899). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$6.0M
31/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Brother Bryan Mission does

Mission

Brother Bryan Mission is a christ centered ministry serving economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished individuals in the birmingham, alabama area. The mission's goal is for each of its clients to return to their environment with healthy relationships to god and man.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The new life fellowship (nlf) program is a nine-month christian recovery program which seeks to address the issues that cause homelessness and the barriers that hinder one from returning to a productive life. The nlf program is divided into four phases. Satisfactory progress has to be made in order to graduate into the next phase. A review committee of senior staff members meets every two months to determine if advancement is warranted and a weekly meeting is held to report on general progress. In the last phase a client is helped by key volunteers from the local business community to prepare a resume, apply and find placement in a suitable, sustainable-wage job. During 2025, 172 men particiated in the new life fellowship program.

    $769,614 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. The exodus program is a back-to-work program that receives men who have completed the organization's new life fellowship program or other similar programs who already have jobs and who have not been active in their addiction for the last six months. These men are able to stay for up to two years in a safe, alcohol and drug free, christian setting. During 2025, 61 men participated in the exodus program.

    $219,890 spent$94,669 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  3. The organization feeds and clothes community residents. During 2025, 35,997 meals were served, 2,005 articles of clothing, and 782 perrsonal hygiene items were distributed to community guests.

    $109,944 spent
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,099,448.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($801k) Expenses 100 ($765k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 102 ($819k) Expenses 107 ($815k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 126 ($1.0M) Expenses 114 ($875k) Net assets 110 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 161 ($1.3M) Expenses 120 ($916k) Net assets 136 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 181 ($1.4M) Expenses 126 ($961k) Net assets 172 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 329 ($2.6M) Expenses 139 ($1.1M) Net assets 283 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 255 ($2.0M) Expenses 160 ($1.2M) Net assets 342 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 288 ($2.3M) Expenses 180 ($1.4M) Net assets 409 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 213 ($1.7M) Expenses 188 ($1.4M) Net assets 428 ($6.0M)
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Revenue (213)Expenses (188)Net assets (428)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $4.0M (+65%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$2.4M
$4.0M
$4.8M
$5.7M
$6.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of BROTHER BRYAN MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’17
$4k
’18
$131k
’19
$373k
’20
$487k
’21
$1.6M
’22
$827k
’23
$931k
’24
$268k
’25
4.3
months of
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.

Chief executive

Jim Etheredge

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131313131312121313
Joined·+5+1+1+0+3+3+6+0
No longer listed·51104350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $73k → $859k.

13 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BROTHER BRYAN MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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

BROTHER BRYAN MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 BROTHER BRYAN MISSION.

45%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 31% · 2019 42% · 2020 38% · 2021 28% · 2022 66% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.

“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

75% of BROTHER BRYAN MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of BROTHER BRYAN MISSION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

NY
MO
AL
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BROTHER BRYAN MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BROTHER BRYAN MISSION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 10%Fundraising 13%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION?
BROTHER BRYAN MISSION (Alabama) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,283,795 to it, the largest being THE ARLINGTON FOUNDATION ($1,911,899). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROTHER BRYAN MISSION have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,283,795 in grants to BROTHER BRYAN MISSION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROTHER BRYAN MISSION?
THE ARLINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,911,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROTHER BRYAN MISSION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing