Awareness Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251848645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8144547203
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $486,969
- Expenses
- $489,572
- Assets
- $787,835
- Liabilities
- $524,328
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carol Loll (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Aaron B Collins (Advisor): $27,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Awareness Ministries Mission is to lift those struggling with Social, Emotional, Family, and Professional Malfunction and weaknesses, and help fortify those areas so that our clientele can walk into their destiny. We accomplish our missioin of love and encouragement and development through Bible Studies, Missions Trips and Outreaches, Education, Food Programs, Affordable Housing Programs, as well as other avenues that train and equip the population we serve and help them find access to tools that will enhance their lives and help them walk into their destiny.
What it reported doing in 2013
We provide quality housing and quality leasing space for companies and individuals seeking a developmental opportunity. Our housing is aimed at low income families, to provide them an opportunity for economic development. Our leasing opportunities are traditional geared at low income agencies to provide them with a professional opportunity for development minus the excessive cost of leasing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -0.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $409K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2013
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.