Damien Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521523098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025263020
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,929,326
- Expenses
- $3,985,049
- Assets
- $575,040
- Liabilities
- $246,489
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gail Oliver (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Rocquelle Jeri (Chair)
- Donald Gray (Board member)
- Walter Whitley (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Committed to supporting those abandoned or isolated in their suffering with HIV/AIDS, particularly the poorest of the poor, Damien Ministries fulfills its mission through dedication, commitment to ministry and mutual support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Damien Ministries services have been an important resource for those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS in the District of Columbia. For over 20 years, the Food Bank and Medical Case Management Services have worked in tandem to fulfill the mission of extending the life expectancy and improving the quality of life for those living with HIV/AIDS. The goal of Medical Case Management is to provide direct HIV/AIDs services to consumers by increasing greater participation in and optimal use of health and social services, increasing knowledge of HIV disease, delay of HIV progression, reinforcement of positive health behaviors and an overall improved quality of life. The Food Bank Program helps our clients by providing enough groceries to last up to 10 days and assists members of the broader community on an emergency basis. Our Medical Nutrition Therapy program identifies the nutritional and wellness needs of our clients enrolled in our other programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,531.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -1.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.