Cool Kids Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201892313
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Nancy, KY, USA
- Phone
- 6063054218
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,342
- Expenses
- $141,619
- Assets
- $6,924
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Harney (Vice President)
- Steve Harney (President/CEO)
People named in this filing
- Greg Burdine (Board Member)
- John Reilly (Board Member)
- Greg Hamilton (Board Member)
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
We train children and teachers all around the world, but mostly in the USA. We teach and train about God and good Character. We do this through camps, VBS programs, teacher training, Nights of Illusions in conjunction with public schools and churches. Our goal is to Win Kids. Win them over to a life of character and a knowledge of God who we believe is the source of all character. In public schools we focus just on Character. Being honest, loyal, dependable, trustworthy, respectable, responsible, stay off drugs and to not be a bully.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cool Kids Ministries traveled to 6 different states training teachers and children about God and character. we run teacher training events, do VBS programs and Nights of Illusions helping children and adults find their best potential.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.6%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 68.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.6% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.