Interfaith Welcome Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841743323
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2105578698
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $417,491
- Expenses
- $558,913
- Assets
- $391,246
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
People named in this filing
- LENNA BAXTER (BOARD MEMBER)
- ABEL VEGA (SECRETARY)
- EUGENE HILEMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Interfaith brings together resources, members of the community, and other organizations in order to: 1) provide basic support to people on their journey; 2) advocate through educating the public on immigrations issues; and 3) collaborate with and support organizations which also work with at-risk immigrants.
What it reported doing in 2024
In carrying out its exempt purposes, interfaith seeks to meet the changing needs of asylum seekers, refugees, and at-risk immigrants in collaboration with the community. The services provided by interfaith are described in detail below:1. Bus station and airport ministry: we are present at the greyhound bus station and san antonio international airport to welcome migrants who are released from detention centers and ports of entry. Our volunteers provide a warm welcome to the migrants and valuable explanations on the u.s. Bus or airport travel process. The information our volunteers provide includes a full list of their rights, ice check-in information, and court date details. The trafficking hotline phone number is also provided and families are warned of the dangers of traffickers on their journey.2. Backpack ministry: our backpack ministry assembles backpacks to distribute to migrants at the greyhound bus station and san antonio international airport before they travel to their family or sponsor. The backpacks are filled with essentials which provide for the individual's basic human needs and comfort during their travels, such as: toiletries, snacks, a water bottle, a small fleece blanket, coloring book, crayons, small toys, a pen and memo pad, and an english/spanish dictionary. Due to security restrictions, backpacks distributed at san antonio international airport include fewer supplies.3. Accompaniment: volunteers accompany individuals and families to ice check-in or immigration court appearances. Volunteers sit or stand quietly with the asylum seeker and provide support and the visual message that this person is of value and has u.s. Citizens standing insolidarity. 4. Travel benevolence: interfaith provides a bus or plane ticket and fluids and meals to asylum and immigrant families so they may continue their journey from san antonio to their family or sponsor in other parts of the country.5. Overnight hospitality: the migrant overnight shelter (the "mos") is organized by a collaboration of the interfaith welcome coalition, travis park church, catholic charities and the city of san antonio to provide shelter at travis park church while families are awaiting their flightor bus to their final destination with their family or sponsor in another part of the country. Interfaith volunteers welcome the families at the mos and provide a quiet space where they can rest before embarking on the final phase of their long journey.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 7%; rating input score 7; 38th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -33.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $546K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Grant itemization coverage scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.