Black Hills Spiritual Center for Peace

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
995073857
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Box Elder, SD, USA
Phone
6053913210
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions

Reported finances

Revenue
$243,193
Expenses
$30,762
Assets
$218,416
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Webb (Board President)
  • Karla Wagner (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Brandon Sterling (Member at Large)
  • Kelly Webb (Board President)
  • Lorie Eichert (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Purpose Statement By fostering fellowship, spiritual growth and a unified commitment to peace, love and harmony. Vision Statement We envision at the Black Hills Spiritual Center for Peace a community where every individual unites in harmony, mutual respect and shared purpose - nurturing a safe, sacred space for growth, love, understanding and transformation. Mission Statement Black Hills Spiritual Center for Peace is an inclusive, heart centered community that embraces, inspires and unites all ages, cultures and spiritual beliefs. We do this through joyful celebration, uplifting music, meditative practices, special events and enrichment classes and workshops. These are all designed to encourage and empower personal exploration.

What it reported doing in 2025

In our first full year of providing services, we held consistent weekly Sunday Services. We maintained our 12 step program. We created an in house band. We offered special events. We offered a variety of enrichment classes. We established a food pantry. We offered Chrsitmas Caroling at 4 nursing homes. We allowed other community organizations to use the space. We attracted new people who were looking for our services. We partnered with Speak Network, another 501(c)(3) who specializes in suicide prevention.

Operating model

Revenue model
Affiliate-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
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

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 88
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 14.3%; rating input score 14
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 87.4%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.1; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 193.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 194.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 14.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 14/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.