12-3-1 Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832732895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154293320
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,022
- Expenses
- $58,463
- Assets
- $7,322
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Tom Lasley (Chairman of the Board)
- Kent Clinger (Board Member)
- Judy Clinger (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
12-3-1 Ministries (1231M) has been organized to provide an outreach ministry to the public and charitable giving to those in need. More specifically, throughout Ukraine, the organization preaches and teaches the Gospel and valuable life lessons through outreach ministry programs and through benevolent and charitable assistance to individuals and qualifying organizations in need. By providing this outreach ministry program, 1231M introduces individuals to the Christian Gospel and expands their knowledge and awareness of faith-based teachings while also working to improve their quality of life through direct assistance.
What it reported doing in 2025
(See Schedule O, Statement 3 -) 12-3-1 Ministries (12-3-1) contributed benevolent monetary gifts supporting several key individuals who minister to and help people in their nearby communities and congregations during times of crisis. Arthur Kazaryan, Dnipro, Ukraine, provides humanitarian and other aid to people living nearby (civilians) as well as orphans and at-risk children suffering hardship due to the ongoing war. Zinaida Zulinskiy, Berdychiv, Ukraine, serves teens in her care, serves as an interpreter for visiting ministers from foreign countries, and provides humanitarian and other aid to IDPs and refugees. Yelizaveta Chupryna in Warsaw, Poland, serves as a ministry leader for teens, provides interpretation support, hosts, and guides visiting pastors. Maria Yermachenkova, Aalen, Germany, provides ministry support for Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking refugees, and serves at-risk women in her community. Provided funding for kitchen equipment to Havillah Mission headquartered in Germany for one of their mission points in central Africa
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 1%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th 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 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 103.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1% of revenue deployed · 1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $595 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.