C O R E Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911650684
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Spokane, WA, USA
Phone
5098693626
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Neighborhood Centers
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,913
Expenses
$50,666
Assets
$37,596
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Doug Wray (President)
  • Kristina Wray (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Doug Wray (President)
  • Kristina Wray (Vice President)
  • Chad Danielson (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

Provide pastor support, funds for church construction, widow and orphan support, support similar organizations, and other charitable support.

What it reported doing in 2025

Grants and similar amounts for ministerial distributions, and pastor and seminary support. Church construction, wells, toilets, medical needs, gospel tracts and other basic needs of life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 1.3%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 1

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -58.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 1.3% of revenue deployed · 1.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $666 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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 1/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.