Church Innovations Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411789436
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Robbinsdale, MN, USA
Phone
7635356814
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,451
Expenses
$136,250
Assets
$29,980
Liabilities
$103,158

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK KEIFERT (President)

People named in this filing

  • RIGHT REV MARK MACDONALD (Chair)
  • BISHOP CALLON HOLLOWAY (Director)
  • PATRICK KEIFERT (President)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Church innovations institute is devoted to renewing the church's focus on god's mission in the world. We provide research and consulting tools, products and processes that increase church's capacities to experience god's renewal and transformation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Additional consulting services include: workshops and learning events focusing on six missional practices, the key steps in moving from doing missions to being missional; we are here now, a year long vision and mission process; and staff covenanting, a guided discernment process in which staff explore, affirm, and leverage individual and corporate gifts to be in alignment with the missional vocation of their church and church body.

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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 59.7%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -118.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.44; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -18.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -40.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 59.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.