Bill Winston Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731277255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Forest Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7086975100
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,762,916
- Expenses
- $12,888,064
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR WILLIAM S WINSTON (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR WILLIAM S WINSTON (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
- DR VERONICA B WINSTON (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
- BELINDA WHITFIELD (DIRECTOR/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. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preach the gospel of the kingdom throughout the world and train believers how to live independent of this world system and have domination over it.
What it reported doing in 2020
Partner relations: we distributed thank you letters, prayer responses and a monthly letter of spiritual teachings to supporters. The prayer call center provided individual prayer sessions with any caller who desired prayer. Born again booklets were also distributed to new believers free of charge.donations are also given to other ministries or non-profit organizations to further the mission of these ministries such as evangelism, outreach, and benevolent causes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.6%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 46.6% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.