Barnabas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952971329
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rcho Sta Marg, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,963
- Expenses
- $73,395
- Assets
- $58,794
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fred Carpenter (President)
People named in this filing
- Fred Carpenter (President)
- Mary Catherine Miller (Pastor and Teacher)
- Don Springer (Trustee)
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
Barnabus Inc. is dedicated to advancing religious charitable and educational causes by fostering church growth and renewal while supporting ministries domestically and internationally. Through the provision of training support and ministry materials the organization equips individuals for effective service in their communities. The ministry led by President Fred Carpenter and Trustee Mary Catherine Miller focuses on creating and disseminating Christian literature that serves an educational purpose empowering individuals for a life dedicated to ministry. The materials authored and published by ministry founder Charles Miller and Mary Catherine Miller aim to enrich and enhance the spiritual journeys of readers enabling them to fulfill their callings in service to the church and the body of Christ.
What it reported doing in 2025
The series titled Walking With Abraham proved so successful that they plan to offer it again in 2026. As always Fred invests considerable time and skill into collecting editing formatting typing and organizing these materials which play a practical role in shaping the inner lives of students and enabling them to influence and lead others!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.