Dare 2 Share Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840504202
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Arvada, CO, USA
Phone
3034251606
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,963,978
Expenses
$5,370,291
Assets
$7,236,631
Liabilities
$759,803

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON LAMB (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • GREG STIER (VISIONARY/FOUNDER): $206,556 total reported compensation
  • DEBRA BRESINA (ED OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS): $175,383 total reported compensation
  • JASON LAMB (PRESIDENT): $149,279 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dare 2 Share Ministries is a non-profit Christian ministry whose mission is to “Energize the Church to Mobilize Youth to Gospelize Their World,” helping youth leaders and teens share the Gospel and make disciples through resources, curriculum, and training events. Are you detail-oriented, highly organized, and energized by supporting senior leadership? Do you enjoy anticipating needs, bringing order to complexity, and helping a mission-driven organization operate at its best? Dare 2 Share Ministries is seeking an Executive Admin Manager to provide high-level administrative and operational support to our President, and leadership to our admin team. This role is critical to enabling focused leadership, sound decision-making, and organizational impact by managing complex workflows, executive logistics, and board-related support. The ideal candidate brings exceptional judgment...

What it reported doing in 2025

Dare 2 share (d2s) energizes the church to mobilize their youth to gospelize their world, and the job won't be done until every teen, everywhere, hears the gospel from a friend. D2s equips and empowers teenagers to relationally and relentlessly share the gospel of jesus christ. D2s hosts week-long training events that draw churches and attendees nationwide, as well as global ministry leaders. Additionally, d2s hosts an annual one-day simulcast event with over 6,700 participating groups that trained tens of thousands of teenagers. D2s works closely with global youth leaders to help them lead gospel advancing ministries. All told, through d2s events, partner events and training, and curriculum and resources, d2s trains tens of thousands of youth leaders and well over half a million teenagers each year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 88.5%; rating input score 88; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $207K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $599K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.