San Antonio Oasis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262243879
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2102365954
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $720,630
- Expenses
- $815,766
- Assets
- $533,275
- Liabilities
- $201,930
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA SCHMACHTENBERGER (PAST PRESIDENT)
- CYNTHIA CARDENAS (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LYNDSEY REICHARDT (Director): $135,155 total reported compensation
- VIRGINIA BROWN (INTERIM PRES): $73,819 total reported compensation
- BRENDA SCHMACHTENBERGER (PAST PRESIDENT): $64,109 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote healthy aging through lifelong learning, active lifestyles and volunteer engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Curriculum: the curriculum program offers classes in arts and humanities, consumer interest and outreach. Courses are available in history and music, visual and performing arts, financial and legal issues, writing, and travel. These classes are held at the oasis center and at outreach sites in san antonio. 996 individuals were served in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
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: 90%; rating input score 90; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $659K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.