Bigtime Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204667815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2054221220
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $725,511
- Expenses
- $653,510
- Assets
- $641,729
- Liabilities
- $5,053
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZACH SKIPPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ZACH SKIPPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $100,000 total reported compensation
- CLINTON WHEELER (MINISTRY COORDINATOR-BOYS): $46,000 total reported compensation
- RILEY PRIEST (MINISTRY COORDINATOR-GIRLS): $43,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Conduct weekly bible studies for elementary, junior high and high school age students in the community of mountain brook, al. Retreat for the kids. Summer mission projects
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct weekly bible studies for elementary, junior high and high school age students in the community of mountain brook, al.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $654K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 26 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.