St Mary's Episcopal Retirement Homes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751653080
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Big Spring, TX, USA
- Phone
- (432)263-1265
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,195,027
- Expenses
- $1,785,991
- Assets
- $4,933,874
- Liabilities
- $4,025,107
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLIE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- CYNTHIA ALVAREZ (PRESIDENT/CE)
People named in this filing
- LESLIE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- DARRL SEARUGGS (VICE CHAIR)
- CHARLES BUCK (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide affordable independent living and safe, affordable housing for the elderly and disabled in Big Spring, Texas. The mission has not changed in our 30 plus years. We still strive to provide affordable independent living for the elderly and disabled. I think we are still very much a needed service and with the aging population and the economy the need for the service will only increase. There will be many more individuals living on a fixed income who need safe and affordable housing. Proudly powered by WordPress. In the mid- seventies, a group of individuals led by Rev. Harlan Birdwell, who was the current Rector at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, and Gill Jones III, a local attorney and an Episcopalian, begin the work to create what is today St. Mary’s Episcopal Retirement Homes, Inc. (Canterbury & Canterbury North). There was a need for safe and affordable housing for the...
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide affordable housing for the elderly and handicapped ina 179 unit apartment complex in big spring, Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th 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: 82% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.