Rust Street Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752950303
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
Location
San Angelo, TX, United States
Phone
325.486.1004
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$509,370
Expenses
$479,748
Assets
$2,743,149
Liabilities
$13,961

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LOREE BRANHAM (PRESIDENT)
  • ALLEN PRICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DERRICK GARNETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID INGRAM JR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID INGRAM JR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,713 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Rust Street Ministries helps with basic life necessities at no charge to those living in our area, providing assistance with food, clothing, household items, furniture, and other items, and referring neighbors to other agencies for needs they cannot meet.

What it reported doing in 2025

Rust street ministries provides food, clothing, furniture, appliances and other household items to those in need living in the san angelo area. Overall, in 2025, rust street ministries activities and public support include...support to the following agencies for their clients:- san angelo independent school district received 1,043 articles of clothing and 540 pounds of food.- shannon hospital received 11 articles of clothing, 697 pounds of food and 31 medical equipment items.- children's advocacy center received 55 articles of clothing and 2,112 pounds of food.closet on wheels (cow), a 30 foot trailer, is a mobile unit equipped with air conditioning, bath room, shower and clothes racks. The cow is taken to elementary schools, children's fairs and similar events where it is used to give away clothes. The cow has been taken to staging centers for fire fighters at large range fires to provide them a cool place to rest and shower and to provide clothes for them. During disaster relief efforts, the cow helped families with 6,521 pounds of food, bus passes, and backpacks.through the bicycles program, rust street ministries repairs donated bicycles and in turn gave away 153 repaired bicycles to those in need.arms of hope is a section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit christian care organization that assists children and single-mother families in need. Rust street ministries helped new households and donated 167,170 pounds of food.alcohol drug abuse council of the concho valley (adaccv) has a 6-8 week program where they help people who have been recently released from jail. The people usually leave jail without any clothing except what they have on. Rust street ministries provided 655 articles of clothing and assisted with dietary needs for these individuals.the bread trailer is a mobile unit that provides those in need through a weekly bread distribution without charge. The bread trailer was not active in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.72; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $410K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $76K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.