Care for Pastors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161734362
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Leesburg, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3527288179
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $862,401
- Expenses
- $914,391
- Assets
- $711,472
- Liabilities
- $11,829
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RONALD COOK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RONALD COOK (PRESIDENT): $170,594 total reported compensation
- RODETTA COOK (SECRETARY): $83,256 total reported compensation
- KATHLEEN RIVERS (TREASURER): $30,938 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 uphold pastoral families in ministry by providing: a safe place to turn, an ongoing relationship of encouragement and counsel, resources that ignite growth in the pastor's family, church and surrounding community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pastoral counseling- seeking to prevent major difficulties in pastors' lives, our organization comes alongside pastors and their families to provide a relationship of encouragement and support that enables them to cope with the demands of the ministry. We provide a program of faith based counseling and care that helps pastors and their families overcome major challenges personally and professionally. When a pastor gives and gives, to the point where he suffers from a state of depletion, we help that pastor heal from empathy fatigue. When a pastor's marriage and or family struggles, we help that pastor overcome marital and family challenges. When conflict in the church arises, or the pastor is forced out, we jump into the trenches and come alongside them or restore them in the ministry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $559K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.