Agape Creative Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431975009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7048490144
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,256,369
- Expenses
- $1,248,417
- Assets
- $308,823
- Liabilities
- $11,254
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alisha Pruett (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- ZOI SALIGA (THERAPIST): $234,533 total reported compensation
- BLAKE CLEMMONS (THERAPIST): $160,055 total reported compensation
- Mijin Wall (Therapist): $114,185 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide professional mental health care services from a Christian perspective to bring about healing to individuals, couples, and families in the greater Charlotte area. We believe everyone should have access to mental health resources, regardless of their ability to pay. Our scholarship fund helps individuals with low income, no health insurance, and those who have experienced a hardship such as loss of job, severe illness, or natural disaster.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Agape Christian Counseling provided 9,167 hours of psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families, including therapy for recipients of the Agape Scholarship Program. Scholarship recipient hours included hours of psychotherapy to Veterans and hours of psychotherapy to our partner organizations who serve survivors of human trafficking and children living in difficult situations, as well as those who qualify for scholarship funding. 223 hours of psychotherapy were covered from the remaining funds from the grants received in previous years. Grants were used for providing therapy to those who were not able to afford it. We believe everyone should have access to mental health resources, regardless of their ability to pay. Our scholarship fund helps individuals with low income, no health insurance, and those who have experienced a hardship such as loss of job, severe illness, or natural disaster.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $235K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.