Westminster Rescue Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520891628
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Westminster, MD, United States
- Phone
- (410) 848-2222
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,107,662
- Expenses
- $3,467,242
- Assets
- $4,567,764
- Liabilities
- $888,926
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE HALLEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE HALLEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $112,336 total reported compensation
- ANGELA LONGE (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $104,525 total reported compensation
- LAURA WALTRUP (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $99,735 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Westminster Rescue Mission is a nonprofit Christian organization committed to seeing lives healed and transformed. Welcome to the Mission Food Program, where we are committed to combating food insecurity and hunger in Carroll County and beyond. As the largest redistributor of food in the area, we partner with dozens of local agencies and charities to ensure that nutritious food reaches those who need it most. Our Mission and Impact In FY 2024-25, the Mission Food Program supplied approximately **1,250,000 pounds****of food to our community, equivalent to more than 1,000,000 meals**. Each month, through our network we help support an average of 10,000 pantry visits by local food insecure families, making a tangible difference in the lives of tens of thousands.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission provides individual outpatient and long-term residential substance abuse disorder recovery treatment for men and women to overcome alcohol and drug addiction. Many clients completed a substance use disorder (sud) client centered program and returned to society as productive citizens.
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 the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st 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: 70% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.