119 Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453026152
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Charles, MO, United States
- Phone
- 8883283368
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $910,951
- Expenses
- $773,736
- Assets
- $294,127
- Liabilities
- $-814
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jon Sherman (President)
- Stewart Glenn (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jon Sherman (President): $86,544 total reported compensation
- Jarred DeSalvo (Director): $68,772 total reported compensation
- Joshua Shallenberger (Director): $68,523 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
119 Ministries’ purpose is to seek and bring the truth to all nations, unlearn false doctrines and traditions of men, and equip the body to live and practice the Word as God originally intended. Their mission emphasizes “Test Everything” (including themselves) and providing a vehicle to disseminate Yahweh’s truth/whole Word and serve the Body of the Messiah with free, testable, easily sharable teachings.
What it reported doing in 2024
119 Ministries expanded its offering of free faith based teaching material. The teachings are disseminated by the 119 Ministries website, youtube, vimeo, and podomatic through internet streaming. 119 Ministries attracted and reached millions of global visitors to the 119 Ministries website in which the free teachings can be viewed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 40%; rating input score 40; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 15.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $774K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.