Buckner International

Legal name: Baptist Memorials Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752755400
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Dallas, TX, United States
Phone
214-758-8000; 800-442-4800 (toll free)
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,745,978
Expenses
$17,536,701
Assets
$73,398,360
Liabilities
$28,215,448

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR ALBERT REYES (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • BRIAN ROBBINS (BRS PRESIDENT (AS OF 12/24))
  • CHARLIE WILSON (BRS PRESIDENT (THRU 8/24))
  • KEN ROBBINS (BRS PRESIDENT (9/24-12/24))
  • MICHAEL OLMSTEAD (BRS VICE PRESIDENT & COO)
  • AARON HARGETT (SR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR ALBERT REYES (PRESIDENT & CEO): $768,624 total reported compensation
  • CHARLIE WILSON (BRS PRESIDENT (THRU 8/24)): $714,810 total reported compensation
  • JEFFREY GENTRY (SVP/CFO THRU 7/28; EVP/COO AT 8/24): $585,720 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Buckner International is a faith-based nonprofit ministry dedicated to following the example of Jesus by serving vulnerable children, families and seniors in the United States and internationally. Find local volunteer opportunities. Church Collaboration Find ways to serve children, families, and seniors through Buckner ministries. Buckner Foster Care and Adoption provides safe and loving homes for vulnerable children who need them — for a season or a lifetime. mega-menu-family-pathways Family Pathways. Find ways to serve children, families, and seniors through Buckner ministries. Corporate Social Responsibility Let us help you customize a plan to meet your corporate social responsibility goals.

What it reported doing in 2024

Baptist memorials ministries (bmm) provides long-term care for an average census of 58 with a primary diagnosis of alzheimer's or related dementia, of which 32% are medicaid eligible.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.19; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $16.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $769K · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $850K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 9 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.