Park Cities Presbyterian Church
Legal name: Park Cities Presbyterian Church Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752896405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- (214) 224-2500
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,215,742
- Expenses
- $2,013,803
- Assets
- $2,207,492
- Liabilities
- $4,499
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETE DEISON (President)
People named in this filing
- PETE DEISON (President)
- WILL FRANCIS (Trustee)
- SARA LEE GARDNER (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Park Cities Presbyterian Church exists to extend the transforming presence of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in Dallas and to the world. So if you’re brand new to the Christian faith—perhaps, just trying to figure out what it’s all about, or if you’ve been a follower of Christ for some time, let us introduce you to our family. In worship, disciple-making, children’s and youth programs, outreach, and missions, and in just having fun together, we would like to provide you with a church home, a place to come and see, to belong, to serve. Our Congregation Our congregation is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA was founded in 1973 in response to the need for a scriptural, evangelical, and reformed witness to Christ. It has established as its top priorities to be biblical in both its government and doctrin.
What it reported doing in 2019
Yard signs prepared as a service to the christian community
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -65.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.