Chebar Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461274704
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Cumming, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6787681978
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,891
- Expenses
- $177,426
- Assets
- $17,576
- Liabilities
- $200
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA HILLMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAMELA HILLMAN (PRESIDENT): $14,538 total reported compensation
- LORI A MCQUILLEN (KEY EMPLOYEE): $4,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower train equip lives through our mentor led life transforming i see me free programs with full supportive services for better second chances to reduce homelessness and reconcile families
What it reported doing in 2024
Served over 2490 active participants during the year continued programming in over 60 correctional facilities throughout the us and africa. Since inception , impacted more than 10,000 individuals through prison outreach, reentry, mentoring, recovery, and community support. Distributed curriculum materials correspondence, mentoring, and reentry participants, throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -35.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 18 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX DepreciationDepletion column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.