Crossroads Farm
Legal name: Crossroads Farm Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383477455
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Reading, MI, United States
- Phone
- (517) 283-3982
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,844,833
- Expenses
- $1,520,066
- Assets
- $3,242,420
- Liabilities
- $17,049
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- G DOUGLAS ROUTLEDGE (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- G DOUGLAS ROUTLEDGE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $106,508 total reported compensation
- DAWN ROUTLEDGE (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $52,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Crossroads Farm works in cooperation with the local rural church to: Engage rural teens, grades 6-12; Equip them to grow in Christ's likeness; Release Impact. National Office Support E-Mail: [email protected] Katrina Wilson first discovered Crossroads Farm at the end of her freshman year at Hillsdale College. While attending for music performance, Katrina knew she was called into ministry, and just didn’t know the exact avenue it would take. Then another student mentioned the ministry of Crossroads Farm. From the first email describing the mission and vision to the first conversation with Dawn to her first night with students, it didn’t take long for Katrina to fall in love with the ministry. After graduation, Katrina raised support and went from volunteering to working at Crossroads Farm. While she came in expecting to hang out with stud.
What it reported doing in 2025
Crossroads farm is a non-denominational ministry that works alongside rural churches through program offerings and leadership training to engage, equip, release, and impact the rural student.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.