Wichita Falls Area Crime Stoppers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751751466
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9407617777
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,440
- Expenses
- $79,637
- Assets
- $522,673
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMANTHA FORESTER (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN BODINE-SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SAMANTHA FORESTER (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN BODINE-SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BYRON LACY (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Crime stoppers offers cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and indictment of persons involved in criminal activity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wichita falls crime stoppers (wfcs) involves the public in the fight against crime. Wfcs operates 940-322-9888 or 1-800-322-9888, a telephone tip line. Cash rewards up to $1,000 are offered to citizens who furnish information leading to the arrest and board approval of felony crime offenders or to the capture of felony fugitives. Your identity is protected. Most of the information received by crime stoppers is by telephone. When a call is recived by crime stoppers, it is logged with the date, time, and a brief summary of the callers information. Callers are furnished with a secret code number which is used in subsequent transactions. Callers may remain anonymous, with no pressure to reveal their identity and still collect a reward. Our organization provides a safe forum for citizens to report crime in their neighborhoods and schools without the fear of retaliation. We are the eyes and ears of law enforcement in the community. Since 1981 wichita falls crime stoppers tips have resulted in 5,551 arrests, 8,415 cases cleard, $1,151,435 in rewards paid, $4,978,806 worth of stolen property recovered, and $27,570,096 worth of drugs seized and taken off the streets.
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.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.56; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.