Good Samaritan at the Baker Estate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455427219
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,930
- Expenses
- $21,873
- Assets
- $426,142
- Liabilities
- $5,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VANESSA G BAKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VANESSA G BAKER (PRESIDENT)
- VIVIAN PATTERSON DUREN (SECRETARY)
- VEKEISHA BAKER-MORRIS (PROGRAMS AND OUTREACH)
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
The Organization purposes included the following 1 Restore Historic Landmark, previously Good Samaritan Hospital, 2Estaablish Historic South DallasMuseum, 3 Chronicle the history of Dallass first licened African American -Owned apartment/boarding house, 4Support needs of underserved populations in the Dallas community offering Scholarships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Major Reconstruction Underway, current Programs offsite.Awarded 10,000 in Scholarships during 2025, and 2,200 Dontions to support our outreach help while our facility is undergoing work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 56%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.48; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 110.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 56% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule M noncash within contributions did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.