The Rescue Mission of Utica Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150569359
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Utica, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157351645
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,187,466
- Expenses
- $9,014,215
- Assets
- $12,814,825
- Liabilities
- $7,783,334
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT SYLVESTER (PRESIDENT)
- EMILIE BELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WENDY GOETZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WENDY GOETZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $168,175 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL DOW (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $124,371 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 rescue mission of utica is a faith-based not-for-profit organization. Our mission is: the rescue mission utica is a christian ministry unconditionally endeavoring to assess and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people coming for assistance.for over 130 plus years, the rescue mission has grown in its ability to supply residency-based programs aimed at: breaking the cycle of drug and alcohol dependency, housing homeless men, teaching life skills and providing residents with supportive and aftercare services so that they can learn vocational skills and obtain and maintain long-term, sustained independence. The rescue mission of utica provides a wide array of services and housing to the homeless, the mentally ill, those struggling with addictions seeking to reestablish themselves in and to contribute to society. It is the largest provider of such services between syracuse and schenectady.
What it reported doing in 2025
Enriched living center: the enriched living center (elc) is a nys office of mental health licensed, 52-single room residential program for adult men and women diagnosed with mental illness. Staffed 24 hours-a-day, major services include: medication management, transportation, health care needs, advocacy, skill training, crisis intervention, education and support. In 2025, the enriched living center (elc) provided 17,627 nights of care to 62 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $717K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.