Bill Glass Behind the Walls
Legal name: Bill Glass Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752733954
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Duncanville, TX, USA
- Phone
- (972) 298-1101
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,380,343
- Expenses
- $2,341,817
- Assets
- $2,050,376
- Liabilities
- $72,727
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL NOLAN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL NOLAN (CEO): $166,048 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist the Church by equipping and igniting Christians to share their faith in Jesus Christ with the "least of these". Our Mission To assist the Church by equipping and igniting Christians to share their faith in Jesus Christ with the least of these. Useful Links. His Dallas-based ministry is now called Bill Glass Behind the Walls. With a dedicated staff and volunteers numbering in the thousands, the ministry is known for its high-energy Day of Champions and Weekend of Champions events conducted inside prisons across the country. Bill said a board member kept badgering him to take his message into prison. “I kept resisting. I was frightened that I wouldn’t fit in with street kids and gangsters in prison.” After overcoming his fears, he saw dramatic results. “I was thrown into it kicking and screaming, but the response from the inmates was just unbelievable,” he said. He spent much...
What it reported doing in 2025
Bill glass behind the walls is a national christian ministry, based in duncanville, that trains thousands of christian volunteers each year to share the gospel of jesus christ; then we provide a hands-on "training laboratory" experience by taking them into prisons and jails across the country to share their faith. We engage inmates with a professionally staged weekend event typically held on the prison yard featuring athletes, entertainers, ex-offenders and musicians sharing their stories of how they came to faith in jesus christ. The performers draw the inmates out that typically wouldn't attend a church or chapel service, by offering hope which then provides an open door for our christian volunteers to share their faith using our proven gospel pamphlet.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $166K · 12 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.