Citadel Ministries
Legal name: Citadel Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464297179
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Fresno, CA, United States
- Phone
- (559) 372-3800
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,072
- Expenses
- $67,066
- Assets
- $86,326
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Phil Friesen (President)
People named in this filing
- Phil Friesen (President)
- Mark Peterson (Secretary)
- Bruce Bickel (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Citadel works to equip and support nonprofit leaders so they can function with full attention on the mission God has called them to; its goal is to help improve the effectiveness of ministries organizationally. The Citadel process begins with an assessment. Once we’ve met with the organization’s leaders and have a good understanding of the ministry’s mission, we come up with a plan of action. We provide support in areas where it’s needed. Citadel is able to help with everything from startup to sustainability. We’re here to help with filing 501(c)(3) paperwork, accounting, assistance obtaining grants, fundraising and event planning, marketing services, and more. **Our goal is to help improve the effectiveness of ministries organizationally. Request a Meeting.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ministry: Admin Services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd 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: 77% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.