Mission Arlington / Mission Metroplex

Legal name: Mission Metroplex Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752354962
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Arlington, TX, United States
Phone
(817) 277-6620
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Public Foundations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,554,364
Expenses
$12,367,729
Assets
$57,287,869
Liabilities
$42,624

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • TILLIE BURGIN (EXECUTIVE DI): $108,624 total reported compensation
  • REGINA GRISSOM (PRAYER CHAIR): $34,698 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Mission Arlington/Mission Metroplex is a faith-based organization that uses hundreds of volunteers and a variety of free services to meet people’s physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs. 1. 30th Anniversary Video – We turned 30 on August 1st, 2016. We hope you will enjoy this short expression of gratitude for your support. 2. 30 Years in the “American Dream” city – Hear Tillie share the _heart_ of Mission Arlington® in this short video. 3. Christening Tillie – On September 11th, in 2015, the Arlington Fire Department christened a new rescue boat. You will enjoy this. Arlington® belongs to God. This isn’t our story, but His. He had plans in place for this Ministry and for all who work here long before it happened. He started this mission, sustains us moment by moment, and He holds our future in His hands. As we talk about who we are it is with sincere humility, a sense...

What it reported doing in 2025

Mission metroplex continues its exempt purpose by meeting the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of the community. The taxpayer provides and afterschool tutoring program with approximately 1,010 students in attendance each week. In the spring, an easter egg hunt was held with an attendance of 2,967. On thanksgiving day, 4,900 volunteers delivered hot meals and turkey baskets to 6,908 families. In 2025,32,983 people received free gifts from the annual "christmas store," angel tree, and adopt-a- family programs. Through the year 189,198 people received emergency assistance in the form of rent or utilities, clothes, food, furniture, and direct delivery of food at no cost.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • 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 related-organization disclosures are missing and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,441.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90.5%; rating input score 90; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 25.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 21 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.