Christopher Ministries, Inc.
Legal name: Christopher Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311700990
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Spring Hill, TN, United States
- Phone
- 615-788-0172
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $402,705
- Expenses
- $397,271
- Assets
- $11,626
- Liabilities
- $4,918
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vic Jungkurth (Vice-President)
- Traci Jungkurth (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Vic Jungkurth (Vice-President): $41,025 total reported compensation
- Tamara Smith (Treasurer): $9,600 total reported compensation
- Traci Jungkurth (President): $4,840 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christopher Ministries, Inc. (CMI) is a Christ-centered parachurch ministry that provides counseling support for bereavement and mental illness, and works alongside local churches to promote emotional and spiritual health. Director, CMI Board Member 2010 Frist Humanitarian Award Recipient CMI Medical Missions is a Christ-centered, non-profit, interdenominational organization focused on demonstrating Christ's comfort to the world. Between 2008 and 2013 CMI Medical Missions provided village health planning and short term medical mission teams to Christian missionaries outside the United States. The goal was to help them improve the overall physical and spiritual health of their local communities. We serve the Father of compassion and to "comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God" (2 Cor. 1:4).
What it reported doing in 2025
Christopher ministries provided over 3,900 hours of counseling services in 2025 to various individuals in Tennessee and Florida. Additional hours were given as pro-bono sessions and pastoral care visits. There are currently six individuals providing counseling sessions with each one contributing over 440 sessions per year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $336K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.