Church of the Living God the Pillar & Ground of the Truth

What it reported doing in 2023

When starting out in 2019, we had a dream of tackling a lot of different problem areas, all at one time. As we continued on, we noticed that the hot meals were what the community responded to the most so from that, we refocused our strategy to expanding our feeding program. Being that we are working to provide both a child and adult daycare facility, we incorporated our feeding program into these other initiatives. Currently, we provide hot meals to anyone in the community for holidays and on the second Sunday of every month. For the food box distributions, we service 240 families across Bolivar, Sunflower, and Washington Counties. We have serviced over 200 individual families, and completed 10 feeding services.We took over 20 students and adults to work 4 home games, which completed over 800 community service hours. We have created a 6 week College Prep Workshop for graduating seniors. Being that we are a small nonprofit, we are fully functioning on the donations from church members, board members, community partners, and other do-gooders of the community. We have been working diligently to expand and are hoping to receive government funding and grants within this next year. Here are our three top goals for this past year and what we have been able to accomplish thus far. Originally, we began serving hot food from the pockets of our board members. After a few months, we were able to partner with a church from Memphis, TN to distribute food boxes to over 1,000 families. Since starting, we have partnered with two other food pantries, two nonprofit organizations, and several stores to delivery hot meals and monthly food distributions. We have created and maintained partnerships with seven community partners within this year. The state of Mississippi has approximately 265 after school and summer programs, for which the Delta area holds 15 of those programs. Within the three counties we serve, there are 4 after school programs, 3 in Washington County and 1 in Bolivar. We want to add to that number by designing another after school program that foster interactions across the county lines. We want our program to go beyond the boundaries of school and widen the net for mental stimulation. TCOTLG has applied for multiple grants in all of our areas of interests. As of December, we were able to raise over $800 for our community garden project. Although we have not received any other outside funding, we are still applying for grant awards.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 2.3%; rating input score 2
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 97.7%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 46.3; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 174.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 173.4% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings