Agora Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742877337
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $975,878
- Expenses
- $1,155,780
- Assets
- $4,877,167
- Liabilities
- $507,588
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON BROOKS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON BROOKS (PRESIDENT): $54,698 total reported compensation
- MISTI BROOKS (TREASURER): $53,797 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serve the poor through education, character, mentoring, and food resource programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
STRONG - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -18.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.22; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $970K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.