Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953841847
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Lake Forest, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9493801558
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,842
- Expenses
- $82,137
- Assets
- $2,583
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV DANIEL T WOODING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- REV DANIEL T WOODING (PRESIDENT)
- DR JAMES KRAMES (DIRECTOR)
- DONELDA DANSBY (DIRECTOR)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization coordinates humanitarian projects to help christians living under difficult curcumstances. The organization hosts a weekly radio show promoting the gospel in foreign countries and provides a news service for the church.
What it reported doing in 2017
The ministry operates the assist news service (ans), which provides news to some 2,000 media outlets around the world. Our website carries news and also details of various assist programs and projects. "front page radio" is a weekly 28-minute show sponsored by ans and hosted by rev. Dan wooding. Rev. Wooding also hosts "inside hollywood with dan wooding," a weekly television program that aired on two tv cahnnels about christians working in hollywood. Our ministry also provides support to christians living in difficult circumstances around the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.