Mission Road Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742958552
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, United States
- Phone
- 2109249265
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,724,611
- Expenses
- $1,747,968
- Assets
- $5,854,890
- Liabilities
- $171,733
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL WHITE (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROL WHITE (President & CEO): $130,668 total reported compensation
- TOBY SUMMERS (CORPORATE ADVISOR): $84,471 total reported compensation
- JAMES ECKMAN (PRIOR CFO): $683 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission Road Ministries is a church-sponsored, community-based nonprofit in San Antonio, Texas that serves children and adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities by challenging them to achieve their full potential for independence, productivity, and inclusion. Road Ministries, a family of agencies, is a community-based, church sponsored organization with a Call from God to minister to persons with intellectual developmental disabilities by challenging them to achieve their full potential for independence, productivity and inclusion in the community. The non-profit organization is located in San Antonio, Texas, serving more than 800 individuals with (IDD) intellectual and developmental disabilities each day with residential, day activity services, and vocational programs. Founded in 1947 by Clifford and Adele Bledsoe, Mission Road began as a small, family-driven...
What it reported doing in 2024
Mission road ministries (mrm) provides the administrative support to mission road developmental center and three hud subsidized apartments that enables them to eliminate redundant costs that each may incur if operating independently and allow them to offer quality care and training to the individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities that they serve. Additionally, mrm provides fundraising for mrm and for support of the related agencies, including holding an annual special event to benefit the related agencies programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.35; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 30 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.