Austin Samaritans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261662003
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5124652073
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $262,034
- Expenses
- $293,397
- Assets
- $659,350
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- John Doty (Vice Chair)
- Keith Martinson (Treasurer)
- Peggy Gentry (Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Austin samaritans seeks to show god's love to people in need in nicaragua byserving and assisting churches and non-profit organizations in nicaragua withtheir programs in the areas of health and education. By coordinating effortsand pooling resources for maximum impact, we connect resources and talent toneeds.
What it reported doing in 2025
Austin Samaritans funds dental services at Clinica El Samaritano, operated by AMOS Health & Hope, in Nejapa. Nejapa is a low-income suburb of Managua. For many families there, the cost of private dental procedures is out of reach. The El Samaritano dental program provides high quality, compassionate dental care, including fillings, extractions, cleanings, and prostheses. Patients at the Clinica Villa Guadalupe that need dental work are transported to Clinica El Samaritano.Accomplishments in 2025 included the following: Provided 1,146 dental consultations. Performed 633 dental procedures. Conducted dental health workshops at both Clinica El Samaritano and Clinica Villa Guadalupe.These workshops consist of three learning sessions that include topics such as proper brushing techniques and the importance of a good diet. Each child participating in the workshops receives a dental checkup, fluoride varnish treatment, and a personal dental kit. The 2025 campaign reached 113 children aged 6 to 12 years old, six mothers of children aged 6 months to 4 years, and 15 chronic patients. Added a dental assistant to the staff.Austin Samaritans is the primary source of support for the dental program, which would close if not for that support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $228K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.