Answers in Genesis
Legal name: Answers in Genesis Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330596423
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Petersburg, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8597272222
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,525,907
- Expenses
- $56,399,517
- Assets
- $193,086,794
- Liabilities
- $39,549,334
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH HAM (FOUNDING CEO)
- JOE BOONE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KENNETH HAM (FOUNDING CEO): $291,138 total reported compensation
- MARTIN ILES (EXECUTIVE CE): $211,937 total reported compensation
- SCOTT FETZER (TREASURER/CF): $185,568 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Answers in Genesis exists to proclaim the authority of the Bible—without compromise—using apologetics in its attractions, resources, and media to communicate the message of God’s Word and the gospel, equipping believers to defend the Christian faith and challenging nonbelievers with the truth of the Bible and its message of salvation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Resource distribution - (magazines) - answers magazine is a creation-based worldview publication, primarily for distribution to subscribers in the USA and the united kingdom, but also to a limited number of subscribers in scores of other countries, including canada and australia. Ministry outreach (internet) - the answers in genesis websiute is used to provide creation resources to the general public. Answers in genesis is also very active in social media through facebook, twitter, and speaker blogs. Ministry outreach (missions) - the organization supports a literal genesis to the church and the world today with creativity. We obey god's call to deliver the message of the gospel, individually and collectively
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most filed governance safeguards are in place. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $42.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $291K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.5M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.