Bible Made Simple Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746063804
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Clanton, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2052800999
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,043
- Expenses
- $48,417
- Assets
- $43,897
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELTON SHORT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELTON SHORT (PRESIDENT)
- LACHELLE KOON (SECRETARY)
- LINDA SHORT (TREASURER)
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
Christian education
What it reported doing in 2025
Our president meets with key people from various mission organizations, denominations, etc where they are encouraged to use our materials
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.