Dispute Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
760251562
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Conroe, TX, USA
Phone
9367606914
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$600,442
Expenses
$563,808
Assets
$507,616
Liabilities
$15,810

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Elaine Roberts JD (President and CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Elaine Roberts JD (President and CEO): $147,374 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide and promote affordable, high-quality dispute resolution services and training to the Montgomery County area.

What it reported doing in 2024

Training/Education and Outreach: A large number of people seek mediation training via Zoom. This online training is more time intensive for staff/trainers/mentors because of complicated logistics planning, and technical assistance required. Despite these challenges, the DRC-MC still provided/sponsored over 182 hours of mediation related training to approximately 1850 individuals. During FY 2024-2025, the DRC-MC conducted (1) 40 Hour General Mediation Training classes; (2) Advanced Family Mediation Training classes; (3) in-person two (2)day Peace Camps for students in Grades 3-12; (4) multi-session conflict resolution training sessions for Justice System Referred youngsters and their parents; (5) a two (2) day conflict resolution training program for high school student interns in the EfTA program; and (6) conflict resolution training for foreign exchange students. In addition, the DRC-MC provided and/or sponsored custom designed conflict resolution trainings for Lone Star College-Montgomery, Texas Association for Court Administrators, Angel Reach, and the SHSU Mediation and Legal Services Office. Nearly 1800 students in grades K-8 participated in the DRC-MC's 2025 Conflict Resolution Bookmark Art Contest and the DRC-MC distributed nearly 45,000 bookmarks supporting peaceful conflict resolution across Montgomery County. To date, over 15,000 students have participated in the DRC-MC's Conflict Resolution Bookmark Art Contest and the DRC-MC has distributed over 120,000 bookmarks with peacebuilding messages in Montgomery County. The DRC-MC received the BBB Award for Excellence, Business of Distinction and Top Rated Non-Profit designation from Great Non-Profits during FY 2024-2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
  • 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $638.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 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: 6.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $506K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.