Orange County Rescue Mission
Legal name: Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952479552
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tustin, CA, United States
- Phone
- 714.247.4300
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,713,550
- Expenses
- $22,002,587
- Assets
- $82,205,564
- Liabilities
- $1,034,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mr Bryan Crain (President)
- Mr Jim Palmer (Former President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mr Bryan Crain (President): $397,058 total reported compensation
- Mr Jim Palmer (Former President): $341,332 total reported compensation
- Mr Larry Gwilt (Chief Financial Officer): $276,669 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping people overcome homelessness and become financially self-sufficient.
What it reported doing in 2024
Emergency & Transitional Housing Programs Programs are provided at multiple campuses for homeless men, women, children and veterans and survivors of human trafficking. Our goal is to end homelessness for individuals and families that seek assistance in a faith based program and is designed to restore hearts and lives to financial self-sufficiency through the provision of spiritual and personal development, case management, counseling, medical and dental care, mental health care, career counseling, education, job training and legal consultations. In 2025, we provided: 105,448 bed nights, 165,778 meals, 18,072 individual client coaching sessions, 28,947 life skills and general education sessions, 6,389 vocational and job training sessions, 37,795 medical, dental and mental health care assessments and treatments, 7,191 tutoring hours and 412 legal consultations. OCRM successfully achieved 100% of this goal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 79.1%; rating input score 79; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 7.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.74; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $397K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $588K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.