Criminal Justice and Mercy Ministries of Oklahoma Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463634553
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Phone
4055302015
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Inmate Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$706,065
Expenses
$768,443
Assets
$1,122,735
Liabilities
$6,660

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KEITH DOBBS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KEITH DOBBS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $120,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through loving, nuturing, and healthy relationships with prison inmates and their families. As an extension of the ministry, cjamm targets sepcific reentry needs, including mental, physical, social, and spriritual. In an effort to break the generational cycles of incarceration, cjamm hosts new day camp, a summer camp for children with incarcerated parents. The programming for camp allows kids to be kids for a week with all their nutritional needs met, a splash of fun, and subliminal messaging to help them say no to drugs, alcohol, and other addictive behaviors of their parents. Cjamm volunteers serve in almost every correctional facility in the state of Oklahoma.

What it reported doing in 2024

New day camp is a five-day camp experience for children ages 8-14 who have at least one incarcerated parent or guardian. These children are tossed between extended family members or foster care and are the forgotten victims of crime and incarceration. Philanthropic support, grants, and scholarships allow the children to attend camp where there are social activities, spiritual programs, health education, and lots of food. Many of these children suffer from food deprevation. Transportation is provided to and from camp. Children may arrive with no clothing, toiletries, or bedding. Donors provide all those items for each child to have during camp and to take home with them. That ranges from homemade quilts to a brand new pair of tennis shoes. Children above age 14 may return as leaders in training (lit) for camp to help with supervision and camp curriculum. This keeps the children engaged and prepares them to become adult leaders at future camps. Cjamm maintains regional and local programming for the children throughout the year with other activities in an effort to strength relationships and opportunities for mentoring.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $556K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.