Barnabas Collective Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993474259
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8599404376
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,670
- Expenses
- $113,867
- Assets
- $16,838
- Liabilities
- $4,036
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Zach Meerkreebs (Executive Dir.)
- Tim Meier (Chairman)
- Jeannie Banter (Secretary)
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
Our purpose is to equip and encourage leaders and organizations through coaching and resources. We desire to help these leaders grow their capacity for courageous, creative compassion.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Barnabas Collective pursued its mission to encourage leaders in the pursuit of renewal by bringing people together, showing up in person, and investing directly in the people carrying the weight of ministry. Through the Convening Event, The Commons, five "Awaken" one days across the globe in partnership with Awaken Network, and friendship-building dinners in Australia, 450 leaders were gathered, encouraged, and connected to one another. Beyond events, Zach preached and taught at roughly 40 engagements reaching an estimated 20,000 people while 100 leaders and churches received direct financial investment through meals, micro-grants, sabbatical support, and other acts of generous care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.