Brother Bryan Rescue Mission 
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Summary
Serving the economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished men of the Birmingham area.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Brother Bryan Rescue Mission
P.O. Box 11254
Birmingham, AL 35202
Website: bbmission.com
Phone: 205-322-0092
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 630322672
CEO/President: Jim Etheredge
Chairman: Dave Dresher
Board size: 11
Founder:
Ruling year: 1981
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 12/31
Member of ECFA: No
Member of ECFA since:
Purpose
BBM's goal is for each client to return to his family, church, and community: free from addiction, with stable employment and housing, and with healthy relationships toward God and others.
Mission statement
Brother Bryan Mission seeks to minister to the economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished in the central Alabama area.
Statement of faith
We believe in one God, Creator and Lord of the Universe, the co-eternal Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that God became flesh in the human life of Jesus Christ, who was with God before the beginning of time.
We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died an atoning death on the cross, rose bodily from the dead and ascended to heaven where, as truly God and truly man, He is the only mediator between God and man.
We believe that the Bible is God's authoritative and inspired Word, which, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, brings the very thoughts of God to the hearer's or reader's consciousness.
We believe that the role of the church in God's kingdom is worship and witness concerning its head, Jesus Christ, preaching the Gospel to all people and demonstrating its commitment by compassionate service to the needs of human beings and promoting righteousness and justice.
We believe that all people are lost sinners and cannot experience the Kingdom of God except through the new birth. Justification is by grace, through faith, in Christ alone.
We believe in the triumphant return of Jesus Christ for His church, and life eternal in Heaven for the redeemed.
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Rescue Missions/Homeless Shelters
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 1218 of 1420 | 125 of 159 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 927 of 1420 | 98 of 159 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 1043 of 1420 | 111 of 159 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 1104 of 1421 | 133 of 159 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 10% | 12% | 8% | 9% | 7% | 10% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 8% | 11% | 8% | 9% | 6% | 10% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 93% | 91% | 94% | 96% | 98% | 95% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 10% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 16% | 15% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 7% | 9% | 6% | 4% | 2% | 5% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 81% | 76% | 76% | 74% | 73% | 74% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 97% | 84% | 60% | 60% | 40% | 66% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 79% | 64% | 46% | 44% | 29% | 49% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 3% | 16% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 34% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | 4% | 16% | 17% | 39% | 20% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 9% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 0.56 | 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.40 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 3.07 | 2.90 | 3.21 | 3.91 | 4.20 | 2.31 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.05 | 0.70 | 0.77 | 1.00 | 1.13 | 0.92 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 10.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 5.18 | 17.24 | 15.55 | 12.05 | 10.64 | 12.98 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 10% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 145% | 416% | 416% | 393% | 373% | 250% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Cash | $521,366 | $513,492 | $433,121 | $767,235 | $869,402 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Short-term investments | $1,549,440 | $1,270,055 | $792,569 | $177,154 | $169,622 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $2,070,806 | $1,783,547 | $1,225,690 | $944,389 | $1,039,024 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $3,925,299 | $3,944,323 | $3,571,158 | $3,025,937 | $1,363,906 |
| Other long-term assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $3,925,299 | $3,944,323 | $3,571,158 | $3,025,937 | $1,363,906 |
| Total assets | $5,996,105 | $5,727,870 | $4,796,848 | $3,970,326 | $2,402,930 |
| Liabilities | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Without donor restrictions | $5,828,805 | $5,571,929 | $4,647,586 | $3,824,664 | $2,122,492 |
| With donor restrictions | $167,300 | $155,941 | $149,262 | $145,662 | $280,438 |
| Net assets | $5,996,105 | $5,727,870 | $4,796,848 | $3,970,326 | $2,402,930 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Total contributions | $1,552,410 | $2,177,629 | $1,972,049 | $2,576,834 | $1,374,878 |
| Program service revenue | $83,595 | $80,312 | $54,275 | $49,535 | $49,777 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $72,524 | $47,471 | $18,758 | $5,306 | $21,613 |
| Other revenue | $1,000 | $1,800 | $2,375 | $1,060 | $1,917 |
| Total other revenue | $157,119 | $129,583 | $75,408 | $55,901 | $73,307 |
| Total revenue | $1,709,529 | $2,307,212 | $2,047,457 | $2,632,735 | $1,448,185 |
| Expenses | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Program services | $1,099,448 | $1,052,750 | $907,567 | $775,220 | $715,567 |
| Management and general | $151,219 | $145,483 | $132,136 | $120,521 | $105,394 |
| Fundraising | $190,627 | $177,957 | $181,232 | $169,598 | $139,746 |
| Total expenses | $1,441,294 | $1,376,190 | $1,220,935 | $1,065,339 | $960,707 |
| Change in net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $268,235 | $931,022 | $826,522 | $1,567,396 | $487,478 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $268,235 | $931,022 | $826,522 | $1,567,396 | $487,478 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Jim Etheredge | Executive Director | $94,898 |
Compensation data as of: 12/31/2025
Response from ministry
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History
The Reverend James Alexander Bryan, "Brother Bryan", was one of the best known and well thought of men to have lived in Birmingham, Alabama.
He came to Birmingham in 1889 to pastor the Third Presbyterian Church. He remained the pastor until his death in 1941.
It was said of Brother Bryan that he did more for the homeless of Birmingham than anyone before him. Before he died, Brother Bryan made a request to a few of his closest friends to establish a place that would take the poor and down-trodden men of Birmingham off the streets and give them food, shelter and care.
Dr. Henry Edmonds, Rev. James Mansfield, Judge Roger Snyder, Rev. James Cantrell and a few others began the mission in 1940 in five rooms on the top floor of a building located at 406 South 20th Street. On February 14, 1941 the mission was incorporated as the Brother Bryan Community Center.
Over the years the Mission changed its name to Brother Bryan Mission and moved three times before coming to the current location at 1616 Second Avenue North.
Today, Brother Bryan Mission is a 65 bed facility using the resources of food, clothing, shelter and other intangible assets to minister the gospel of Jesus Christ to those in need of help and healing.