Caught Up in Christ Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882214087
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dubuque, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5635800355
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,320
- Expenses
- $5,330
- Assets
- $41
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD V MERFELD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD V MERFELD (PRESIDENT)
- REV MICHAEL TARIGOPULA (VICE PRESIDE)
- DONALD J SCHIFFER (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
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes as specified in section 501(c)3 of the internal revenue code. Advance the christian religion, educate the public to the nature of spiritual firt aid, attract support from the public and to receive contributions and grants, provide charitable donations and engage in any lawful activities for which a nonprofit corporation may be organized under the Iowa nonprofit corporation act. The corportation shall not be conducted or operated for profit and no part of the net earnings shall inure to the benefits of any individual or other purposes of the corportation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Caught up in christ ministries was founded to help people set or re-set their faith firmly on the foundation of jesus christ. We focus on helping people get back to the basics of our faith. And our catholic faith starts with the kerygma, our belief that the forgiveness of sin and the blessing of eternal life are exclusively tied to the death and resurrection of jesus christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.