Collegians for Christ Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815383871
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Winterville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8288326505
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $205,674
- Expenses
- $151,109
- Assets
- $161,819
- Liabilities
- $6,152
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kyle Austin (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kyle Austin (President): $27,496 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Campus Connect Ministries, Inc., operating as "Collegians for Christ", is to reach students by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to teach them life applicable truths from God's Word, to connect those students to other believers and a local church in the area, and to guide students to be leaders that impact their campus and community for its good.Our vision is to see that each campus in America is reached by assisting students and a sponsoring local church that have a desire to establish a Collegians for Christ registered as a student organization on the campus. This vision is accomplished by students fulfilling the mission of each local CFC chapter.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Organization hosted a Winter Retreat with the purpose of guiding college students to cultivate a deeper love for God and His Word, to follow Jesus Christ unashamedly in today's world, and to connect with other young adults and make lasting friendships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.8%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 26.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.8% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.