Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742137744
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
8328491583
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,847,682
Expenses
$4,848,054
Assets
$14,398,244
Liabilities
$1,098,135

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rania Mankarious (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Rania Mankarious (CEO): $307,608 total reported compensation
  • Cabell Wood (Sr. Dev, Program Mgmt Director): $150,804 total reported compensation
  • Nichole Christoph (COO): $150,782 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Crime Stoppers of Houston's mission is to solve and prevent crime in the Greater Houston area in partnership with citizens, media and the criminal justice system.

What it reported doing in 2025

Safe School Institute: The Crime Stoppers of Houston (CSOH) Safe School Institute (SSI) exists to prevent violence and promote safer learning environments by delivering age-appropriate, evidence-based safety education to students, educators, and school communities across Texas. SSI programs include in-person and digital student safety presentations, educator training, youth engagement initiatives, reporting tools, and statewide prevention campaigns such as Million for Million.Continued on Schedule O.In 2025, SSI expanded safety access and visibility statewide by launching new instructional content on consent, AI awareness, digital literacy, and mental health; producing a new TIPS reporting video; and delivering Spanish-language virtual training series for educators across all 20 Education Service Centers. SSI strengthened partnerships through 12 new MOUs, supported new Safe School programs in additional counties, distributed more than 2,300 backpacks to Title I schools across multiple regions, and engaged over 100 student volunteers while assembling 3,000+ Child ID Kits. During the year, SSI reached 245,892 students with face-to-face education, 17.6 million students via digital education, 33,543 school staff and law enforcement professionals, and 327,951 parents and community members, contributing to a combined 12+ million people reached since inception across the Safe School and Safe Community Institutes in 82 Texas counties, demonstrating measurable, scalable impact in school safety and prevention education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -26%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $308K · 33 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $523K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.