Nashville Rescue Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452424130
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6152552475
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,435,594
- Expenses
- $18,812,466
- Assets
- $31,478,565
- Liabilities
- $936,629
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLENN CRANFIELD (PRES/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GLENN CRANFIELD (PRES/CEO): $263,957 total reported compensation
- SAM SIPLE (VP OF DEVELOPMENT): $164,454 total reported compensation
- JOYCE FLORES (VP OF MINISTRIES): $142,513 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nashville Rescue Mission is a Christ-centered community providing programs and services to help people who are hungry, hurting, and experiencing homelessness, focusing on a person’s entire life—physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and social. Nashville Rescue Mission gives life transformational hope to everyone who walks through our doors. It’s why we say, **“Hope Lives Here!” History Established in 1954, the Mission first opened its doors to provide food, clothing, and shelter to men experiencing homelessness in Nashville. In 1968, services were expanded to include women and children. Today, the Mission serves over 800 men, women, and children on a daily basis. We are driven by the desire to share the Gospel, and we strive each day to spread this unending message of hope. Find out more about our history.
What it reported doing in 2024
Recovery ministries: the mission's life recovery program is a comprehensive, christ-centered, 12-month, residential, program designed to help men and women (18 and over) overcome their battle with addiction, homelessness, and other broken lifestyles. Individual and group counseling, along with bible classes, life skills classes, adult education, job training, transitional housing, and living in community with others, helps them rebuild their life on a solid foundation rooted in god's word. There were 183 program students (including 61 who have graduated) as of 9/30/2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 40th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 3.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $264K · 25 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.