Changing Conversations
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872189709
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Plano, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4694478579
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,928
- Expenses
- $140,790
- Assets
- $3,138
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Jones (President, Pastoral Counselor)
People named in this filing
- Christopher Jones (President, Pastoral Counselor)
- William Burrell (Director)
- Eric McMillian (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Changing Conversations aims to address poverty by offering couples counseling to keep families together, making them two-income households; offering career counseling; and offering financial coaching. This is done in a Christian community to both Christians and non-Christians. In addition, we "adopt" up to three families at a time and do intensive work with them on conflict, job/career readiness, financial coaching, and parenting coaching to help them stay together and avoid a cycle of broken families. Our work ranges from couples conflict to how to teach elementary students math.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided pastoral counseling to over 30 couples, counseling them on marriage and family. 25 couples were at or near separation/divorce/break up. 4 became engaged to be married. 1 divorced. 2 filed for divorce. Of the three that either divorced or filed for divorce, all three were separated and leaning toward divorce, which is the majority of our couples, and these three reconciled briefly but ultimately dissolved the marriage. Intervened with three youth who were demonstrating depressive tendencies and/or risky behavior, ranging from depression to alcohol abuse. 100% of youth have met goals Adopted 6 couples, providing weekly therapy to them free of charge and discounted sessions by 50% for three other families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.