Christian Fellowship Prison Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341953516
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fredericksburg, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3306954821
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,037
- Expenses
- $103,512
- Assets
- $105,346
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES MARTIN (PRESIDENT / BD MEMBER)
- STEPHEN MARTIN (SECRETARY/VICE PRESIDENT/MEMBER)
People named in this filing
- JAMES MARTIN (PRESIDENT / BD MEMBER)
- STEPHEN MARTIN (SECRETARY/VICE PRESIDENT/MEMBER)
- JOSEPH LAFAVE (TREASURER/ BD MEMBER)
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
To encourage spiritual development of prison inmates by providing bibles, concordances, bible studies, and other literature which explains and teaches the christian faith.
What it reported doing in 2025
The distribution of bibles, concordances, dictionaries, bible studies, and other literature to inmates. The organization sends these donated items along with a personalized letter to each recipient.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
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: -26.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.