Operation Rescue Children

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871601305
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Wichita Falls, TX, USA
Phone
9406425722
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Victims' Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,525
Expenses
$100,401
Assets
$273,866
Liabilities
$7,341

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KRYSTAL ELMORE (PRESIDENT)
  • TRAVIS CLARKE (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KEITH WAGGONER (DIRECTOR)
  • HARLEY ELMORE (DIRECTOR)
  • ADRIANNE WAGGONER (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Empowering the heroes fighting human exploitation to be more capable and effective.

What it reported doing in 2025

Empowering the heroes fighting human exploitation to be more capable and effective by providing state-of-the-art tools and training that exponentially increases the success and impact of these heroes. Operation rescue children also provides education and skills that teach mental resilience in the face of danger and high-stakes scenarios. In 2025, operation rescue children conducted free training to 123 participants for 12 days with a total of 104.5 hours and had 15 volunteers help throughout the year. Operation rescue children established its official headquarters in downtown wichita falls. Operation rescue children had a very successful demo/fundraising event to fund their realistic training center. Operation rescue children was a sponsor of the 2025 crimes against children conference, sponsored 3 Texas rangers and 2 cps workers to attend the conference, and their director of training taught a workshop on elite resilience.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 32
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 29.1%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 29.1% of revenue deployed · 38.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.