Christian Answers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742719544
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5122188022
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,329
- Expenses
- $54,516
- Assets
- $2,813
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- STEVE MORRISON (DIRECTOR)
- LARRY WESSELS (DIRECTOR)
- BOB ROSS (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization maintaines 3 websites, 715 hours of television programing, tri-yearly 12 page newsletters distributed and mailed out
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization maintaines 3 websites, 715 hours of television programing, tri-yearly12 page newsletters distributed and mailed out.to 2,700 subscribers. In addition the continued distribution of free christian ed materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th 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: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.