Come to Life Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200483050
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6309168920
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,676
- Expenses
- $74,300
- Assets
- $26,364
- Liabilities
- $2,048
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN SEBASTIAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TIMOTHY FRIESEMA (SECRETARY)
- JONATHAN SEBASTIAN (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH F BAILEY JR (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Come to life ministries exists to come alongside and offer encouragement to ministry leaders, strengthen great commission and great commandment ministries within the local church, and to help people see the bible as alive and personally relevant.
What it reported doing in 2024
Coming alongside and offering encouragement to ministry leaders, and providing pastoral care services at various senior facilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
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: -6.6%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.