Becoming Untwisted
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922149018
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7209190266
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,583
- Expenses
- $71,338
- Assets
- $4,802
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Truman Lo (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Truman Lo (Executive Director)
- Amber Lo (Director)
- Warren Culwell (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be a Christian ministry that helps individuals become the best version of themselves in order to live the best life they were meant to live for the flourishing of their community. (1) To provide spiritual companionship, training resources, and coaching to Christian leaders from a Christian, biblically-based perspective. (2) To promote a practical framework and practice of spiritual formation that is informed by how diverse peoples of the world are being transformed in Christ's image and becoming truly untwisted. (3) To help people clarify their God-given purpose and design and coach them to live it out, so that their communities can truly thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hosted online workshops, offered individual coaching, spiritual direction, and Splankna.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.5%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 0
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: -23.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -197% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -117.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.5% of revenue deployed · 0.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $270 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.