Catalyst Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815336239
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Franklin, TN, USA
Phone
2534599173
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$102,224
Expenses
$112,397
Assets
$35,612
Liabilities
$60,700

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Adam Narciso (Director)
  • Jennifer Narciso (Treasurer)
  • Natalie Willmarth (Secretary)

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

Training and equipping the next generation in Christian living.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide resources for Christian living: podcasts, e-courses and books. Published a new e-book called Defined by God.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.9%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 14

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.7; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.9% of revenue deployed · 14.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.