TrueWorks Houston
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883948484
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8505861288
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,719
- Expenses
- $482,296
- Assets
- $25,461
- Liabilities
- $36,390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KATE THOMAS (TREASURER &): $68,261 total reported compensation
- RACHEL QUAN (DIRECTOR): $48,219 total reported compensation
- DOUG MEIKLE (CHAIR & SECR): $44,473 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TrueWorks is a non-profit organization committed to Houston's flourishing. We exist to bring meaning to work in the city we love; helping entrepreneurs and business leaders reimagine their role in God’s redemptive story so they can re-enchant and impact the world for good. At TrueWorks, we know what it’s like to work in a secular world that feels disconnected from the sacred. Motivated by our Christian faith, we believe that work is essential to human flourishing and vital to human dignity. Our mission is simple, yet profound: we help entrepreneurs and business leaders reimagine their role in God’s redemptive story so they can re-enchant and impact the world for good. We offer teaching, coaching and a thriving community in Houston to support your journey towards meaningful integration of faith and work, both on an individual and organizational level. We are ecumenical practitioners...
What it reported doing in 2024
Trueworks houston's (trueworks) mission is simple, yet profound, helping entrepreneurs and business leaders reimagine their role in god's redemptive story so they can re-enchant and impact the world for good. Their programs are aligned around the three strategic pillars teaches, ventures, and gathers, equipping leaders with the tools and mindset needed to make a difference in their workplace. This in turn impacts a myriad of sectors across the houston area and contributes to the city's flourishing. - they offer different formats to accomplish this, from a series of weekly meetings for several months to weekend intensives. They are the connective tissue of the faith-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem. ... See additional information at sch o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -40.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.43; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $295K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.