Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas
Legal name: Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742019773
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- La Grange, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9799681657
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,550,811
- Expenses
- $3,786,038
- Assets
- $16,103,303
- Liabilities
- $1,897,461
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rick Masselink (President)
- Dale Trevino (Vice President)
- Ryan Neuhaus (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Ryan Neuhaus (Executive Director): $140,073 total reported compensation
- Leah Wolf (Director of Administration): $100,445 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transforming lives through adventurous christ-centered experiences by planting seeds of faith, cultivating christian leaders, and growing the kingdom of god. Did that not solve the problem? Check out this help doc with more tips and ways to resolve the issues. Of course you can always contact support and we'd be happy to help! I’m just passing through. What the heck is this?
What it reported doing in 2025
LOMT has provided programming and facilities for Christ-centered outdoor experiences for children, youth, and families since 1979. Committed to supporting the mission and ministry of the Texas District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, LOMT conducts year-round programs that provide an intentional Christian community for participants and a break from daily routines. LOMT's activities include a summer camp program, directed retreat programs, and hosted retreats. These activities are carried out primarily through the operation of Camp Lone Star, a camp and retreat facility on the Colorado River in La Grange, Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $132.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.25; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other securities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.