Road to Emmaus Ministry of Syracuse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812536179
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3152561982
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,289,315
- Expenses
- $888,116
- Assets
- $4,155,571
- Liabilities
- $250,897
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHEILA AUSTIN (PRESIDENT/ EXEC. DIRECTOR)
- REVEREND JOHN MANNO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN O'CONNOR (SECRETARY/DIRECTOR OF OPER): $68,386 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide volunteer centered faith based outreach ministry rooted in the teachings of the roman catholic church serving the poor, isolated and homeless living on the peripheries of society within the western region of the diocese of syracuse, ny with a focus of providing a meal service and groceries on the south side of syracuse.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, emmaus ministry's meal service distributed 102,876 meals from the outreach center. This represents 1045 households. During 2025, emmaus ministry's food pantry distributed 1228 grocery bags and personal care bundles. During 2025, emmaus ministry distributed 441 healthy meal packs.during 2025, emmaus ministry's case management services had 1070 contact points.during 2025, emmaus ministry provided 90 guests with shower and laundry access. During 2025, road to emmaus ministry provided 26 guests with haircuts. During 2025, road to emmaus ministry hosted aurora of cny vision & hearing to provide 26 free eye and hearing exams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.2%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 31.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.68; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.2% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $799K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.