Rising Sons Ranch for Boys
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843654048
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Burkburnett, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9402574111
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,991
- Expenses
- $185,108
- Assets
- $167,114
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Billy Pate (President)
People named in this filing
- Billy Pate (President)
- Phil Addy (Secretary)
- Justin Harris (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
The Mission of Rising Sons Ranch for Boys is to provide a forever home for boys who are currently in the foster care system, by connecting children currently in foster care with healthy, loving homes, to assist foster families in moving forward in adoption, and to establish, encourage, and maintain a village of support for the foster community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Current activities of Rising Sons Ranch for Boys include but are not limited to, raising awareness of the many challenges facing children in foster care, through speaking engagements, public presentations, and social media networking. Rising Sons Ranch for Boys is engaged in recruiting families into our mission of providing forever homes for children in foster care by establishing relationships with community groups, churches, and businesses comprised of those willing to respond to the challenge and bridging the relationship between foster care agencies and the families willing to support children in foster care. In addition, Rising Sons Ranch for Boys provides venues for needed and required training, helping foster families receive the necessary certifications to open their homes to children in foster care. Rising Sons Ranch for Boys provides ongoing support to foster families moving forward in the adoption process, by providing direction, resources, along with emotional and physical support to families by building a community of support around each foster family. Rising Sons Ranch for Boys also provides an after-school program that welcomes young men into an environment in which they can develop life skills, gain life experience, and learn valuable life lessons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.9%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 52
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: -12.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.9% of revenue deployed · 51.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.