Oaks of Righteousness
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460748229
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Humble, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7132996343
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Half-Way House for Offenders, Ex-Offenders
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $622,883
- Expenses
- $414,072
- Assets
- $903,906
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Reeves (President - Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Karen Carson (Director): $840 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Oaks of Righteousness provides a faith-based recovery program to female ex-offenders who desire to change their lives and become productive members of society. It is a structured Christ centered 9-24 month program where the women live as a community in a home environment. New residents are provided clothes shoes and hygiene and given assistance with ID and other needed documents. The program includes church bible studies 12 step program counseling anger management relapse prevention life skills boundaries exercise community service and G.E.D tutoring as needed. After the 5th month residents attend a job readiness program. Once employment is achieved residents move on to Phase 2 which includes one on one work with a budget and credit repair counselor. Women who successfully complete Phases 1 and 2 may move to Phase 3 to continue their education and skills training. The Oaks of Righteousness employs 4 full-time staff and contracts with two licensed counselors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Executive Director and Program Manager spend one day each week inside prison visiting the women leading Bible studies and introducing them to the Oaks community so they know there is a place of stability support and faith waiting for them when they are ready. Our Executive Director serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for the Faith-Based Dorm at the Plane Unit where she and our Program Director facilitate the faith-based program provide discipleship and alongside our Facilities Director lead worship services. Through this ministry we serve approximately 200 women each year in the Faith-Based Dorm.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th 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: 33.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.5% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $307K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $840 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.