Congress of Christian Leadership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990885591
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8177550780
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,350
- Expenses
- $975
- Assets
- $375
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Antwon D James (Chairman)
- Manolito J Norman (Vice Chairman)
- Lloyd T Alston (General Secretary)
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
The mission of the Congress of Christian Leadership, Inc., is to unite and empower Christian leaders by cultivating a culture of collaboration, accountability, and mutual support. Through conferences, retreats, workshops, and seminars, we are committed to equipping leaders with the practical tools, administrative resources, and spiritual formation necessary to faithfully and effectively fulfill their God-given ministry assignments and callings ensuring that the operational and organizational foundations of the church are as strong as its spiritual witness.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Congress of Christian Leadership (CCL) is developing a Digital Resource Library, a centralized online platform providing members with tools and resources to support effective church administration and management. The library is designed to assist pastors, church administrators, and ministry leaders in managing the operational, financial, legal, and organizational responsibilities of their congregations. Resources available through the library include financial management templates and budgeting tools, human resources and volunteer management guides, legal and nonprofit compliance resources, strategic planning tools, communications and technology guidance, facilities and operations management materials, and ministry programming support. All resources are curated specifically for faith-based and religious nonprofit organizations. The library will also include a Grant Database, a searchable tool providing members with access to federal, state, and local grant opportunities available to churches and faith-based nonprofits. The database will include grant eligibility requirements, funding amounts, application deadlines, and grant writing resources to assist member organizations in successfully pursuing funding opportunities. The primary beneficiaries of this program are member churches and faith-based organizations, particularly those with limited administrative capacity seeking to strengthen their internal operations and expand their community impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $875 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.