Christian Formation and Direction Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931211269
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3107291852
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,872
- Expenses
- $99,329
- Assets
- $59,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLYN CRAWFORD (President)
People named in this filing
- CAROLYN CRAWFORD (President)
- STEPHEN MADARIS (Treasurer)
- STEVE SUMMERELL (Secretary)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To encourage, equip and train pastors and laity in spiritual formation through seminars, conferences, workshops, retreats and personal consultations
What it reported doing in 2018
To encourage, equip and train pastors and laity in spiritual formation through seminars, conferences, workshops, retreats and personal consultation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- 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: 12%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2018
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.