Anchor Home Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852509035
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9493101277
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,994
- Expenses
- $92,808
- Assets
- $33,674
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darren Mettler (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Darren Mettler (President and Director)
- Jason Carson (Treasurer and Board Member)
- Beale Howard (Secretary and 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
Anchoring people's lives on the truth and love of Jesus via Biblical, Christian, Pastoral counseling, teaching, and practical and spiritual support.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing various resources for people in various categories based on need, request, evangelism, and support etc. Resources provided were books, training materials, curriculums, assessments, Bibles, benevolence, meals, gifts, etc. The aim of these practical and spiritual resources given was to help people anchor their lives on the truth and love of Jesus.
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
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: 15
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.9%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 16%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.9% of revenue deployed · 16% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.