Ascent Mentors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851407182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- 2147892206
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $290,177
- Expenses
- $293,336
- Assets
- $59,568
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Holly Scurry Todd (President)
People named in this filing
- Holly Scurry Todd (President)
- Frank J Wright (Director)
- Heather Washburne (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ascent Mentors exists to connect High School students to the heart of God by demonstrating the personal and relational nature of Jesus through empowering a generation of college graduates to disciple them one by one. Eligibility** Access is limited to approved Ascent Mentors program participants — mentors, students, chapter leaders, and administrators. Acceptable use** You agree to use the portal only for its intended purpose: participating in the Ascent mentoring program. You may not share your login, attempt to access other users' accounts, or use the portal for any unlawful purpose. Your content** You retain ownership of any profile information or photos you submit. By submitting them, you grant Ascent permission to display them to appropriate program participants (your matched mentor or student, and your chapter leader).
What it reported doing in 2025
Mentor Events
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 20%; rating input score 20; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 20/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.