Ruston Community Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
743129452
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Ruston, LA, USA
Phone
3182553644
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Housing Development, Construction, Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$3,933
Assets
$3,225,617
Liabilities
$2,001,884

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • EVERETT WOODROW WHITTINGTON JR (Executive Dir.)
  • ROBERT WILEY (Chairman)
  • DAVID BUCKLEY (Vice Chairman)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote and advance decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low income and particularly the elderly or handicapped in lincoln parish and to act as the instrumentality of the ruston housing authority by, among other things, rendering financial assistance in acquiring, rehabilitating, maintaining, and operating housing projects in lincoln parish approved by the housing authority and usable for public housing purposes or other purposes not inconsistent herewith.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide and maintain low income housing to qualified applicants in lincoln parish.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 820.14; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.