Trinity Restoration Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201122309
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Dallas, Texas, US
- Phone
- 214-565-0685
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $444,377
- Expenses
- $505,702
- Assets
- $484,262
- Liabilities
- $196,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Dennis Gant (Executive Dir.): $32,500 total reported compensation
- Ashanti Smith (Director): $32,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide hope, restoration, and empowerment to incarcerated men and women, helping them rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society with purpose and dignity.
What it reported doing in 2024
The prison mentoring and aftercare ministry that is operated by this organization has provided pre-release counseling and mentorship to inmates, fostering successful reintegration through strategic connections with local churches and faith-based support networks.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 40
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 0th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $351K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.