City of the Lord
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953156330
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Freedom, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6193006056
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,589
- Expenses
- $97,745
- Assets
- $302,831
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE JOHNSTON (PRESIDENT)
- TIM DAWSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GEORGE JOHNSTON (PRESIDENT)
- BILL KOLLER (SECRETARY)
- TIM GASSAWAY (CFO)
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
City of the lord involves itself in outreach activities which are designed to provide families with assistance in communications, education and evangelization. Ministries, activities and events are spread out among monterey county, los angeles county and san diego county.
What it reported doing in 2025
City of the lord involves itself in outreach activities which are designed to provide families with assistance in communications, edication and evangilization. Ministries, activities and events are spread out among monterey county, los angeles county and san diego county. Providing family support and outreach by coordination and financing family and youth outreaches and including annual summer camp for over 80 community children. Women in ministry and music ministry includes child care, teaching and formation to over 200 members. Other activities were primarily zoom meetings with 100+ people at various times.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
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: 19.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.