Union Rescue Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951709293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- (213) 347-6300
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,439,679
- Expenses
- $51,949,023
- Assets
- $109,460,039
- Liabilities
- $11,198,582
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD BAKER (PRESIDENT)
- MARK HOOD (CEO)
- JEFF HUDSON (INTERIM CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD BAKER (PRESIDENT): $250,038 total reported compensation
- RICHARD NEWCOMB (VP PHILANTHROPY, SOCIAL ENTERPRISE): $225,919 total reported compensation
- YEILEN HERNANDEZ (VP HUMAN RESOURCES): $174,501 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Union Rescue Mission serves men, women, and children in crisis with Christ-centered hospitality and trauma-informed care, meeting urgent needs with dignity while providing recovery programs, counseling, education, job training, and housing support to guide guests toward lasting stability and renewed purpose.
What it reported doing in 2024
Shelter services - union rescue mission (urm) is the oldest and largest rescue mission in los angeles, founded in 1891. Urm has three major facilities in los angeles county, all providing food, shelter, counseling, medical, mental, and dental care, as well as job search and placement. The main facility is in la's skid row on san pedro street and averages over 570 people under roof each night. There are also two family centers: hope gardens in sylmar, with single mothers, children, and about 25 senior ladies, with a total population of about 231 residing there. In addition, urm built and opened their new angeles house family center in 2022, with about 201 moms, dads, and kids there each night. Urm welcomed over 5,389 people through their doors in fiscal 2025, served over 531,953 meals, provided over 366,821 nights of safe shelter, and moved over 350 people into a more permanent housing situation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 24.1%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $250K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.8M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 25 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.