Chrysalis Ministries
Legal name: Chrysalis Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741914047
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, United States
- Phone
- +1 (210) 299-4540
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,267,790
- Expenses
- $1,873,483
- Assets
- $2,450,658
- Liabilities
- $344,859
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANTONIO TARANTINO (CEO)
- CLAYTON MATHESON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANTONIO TARANTINO (CEO): $128,783 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chrysalis Ministries provides hands-on case management and counseling services to incarcerated individuals, formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, and at-risk youth to help them overcome the consequences of incarceration and build a better future. Chrysalis Ministries understands that the consequences of incarceration can be far-reaching and long-lasting. We provide a range of services to help individuals and families cope with the challenges of re-entry into society. These services include individual and family counseling, workforce development including job readiness training, financial literacy classes, life-skills classes and assistance with housing and transportation. We also provide mentoring and support to at-risk youth, helping them to make positive life choices and avoid the pitfalls of incarceration. Chrysalis Ministries is committed to helping individuals and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Fiscal year 2024-2025 programs were sponsored for children of incarcerated individuals. The organization provided chaplaincy services, life skills classes, re-entry classes, and substance recovery classes to incarcerated adults and juveniles in bexar and karnes counties. The outreach center provided service to formerly incarcerated individuals and family members. More than 90% of the formerly incarcerated receiving services from the organization did not get re-arrested during the fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 53.8%; rating input score 54; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 17.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.