Ariel Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741930400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2103447707
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,688,622
- Expenses
- $3,748,494
- Assets
- $5,778,395
- Liabilities
- $733,612
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY SIGLER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TIMOTHY SIGLER (CEO): $321,326 total reported compensation
- ARNOLD FRUCHTENBAUM (DIRECTOR): $192,302 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ariel ministries exists to bring the good news of the messiah to jewish people and to disciple believers through intensive bible teaching from a messianic jewish perspective and dispensational theological position. Continued on schedule o
What it reported doing in 2024
Placing missionary personnel internationally that engage in sharing the good news of the messiah with jewish people through personal interactions, speaking at events, translating and publishing of bible study resources, community projects, etc. Many of these missionaries receive grants through ariel ministries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 61.9%; rating input score 62; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 74.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $321K · 8 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.