Inspiration Ministries
Legal name: Christian League for the Handicapped Dba Inspiration Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390960668
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Walworth, WI, United States
- Phone
- 262-275-6131
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,845,152
- Expenses
- $4,583,732
- Assets
- $6,019,213
- Liabilities
- $679,323
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erik Barber (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Erik Barber (President): $149,910 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At IM, our mission, vision and core values guide the care and services we provide, and they guide the decisions we make as team members and as an organization. Mission “Opening a world of opportunities for people living with disabilities to thrive and achieve their God-given purpose.”. Core Values Faith:** Pursuing the love and heart of Jesus while seeking the Holy Spirit’s leading through prayer, the Bible, counsel and collaboration. Providing spiritual guidance and support to individuals, encouraging growth in their faith journey. Employment Culture:** Fostering an environment of servant leadership through honesty, humility, compassion, integrity, teamwork, respect, accountability, open communication, and employee engagement. Empowering employees to take initiative and embrace a sense of ownership.
What it reported doing in 2025
Employment and Training: Inspired is a premium coffee shop, a neighborhood place, located in downtown Lake Geneva, Wisconsin employing people with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities where they are celebrated, job trained, coached and, over time, placed into a fully integrated work setting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.