DATE the Word
Legal name: Date the Word Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922451840
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Winston Salem, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3365299774
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,863
- Expenses
- $60,988
- Assets
- $3,739
- Liabilities
- $3,602
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dwayne Carson (CEO)
- Donita Carson (President)
People named in this filing
- Kirk Carson (Chairman of the Board)
- Dwayne Carson (CEO)
- Donita Carson (President)
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
Doctrinally, I believe the Bible is the Word of God and is inspired, inerrant and infallible. I believe all men need to hear the message of Christ and that each Christian is an ambassador for Christ. I am involved in carrying out the Great Commission. In the past, I have been involved in door-to-door evangelization in Lynchburg, Las Vegas, Dallas and New York City. I have traveled to Romania, Hungary, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, Canada, Kenya and Argentina to take Bibles and tracts and to share the gospel with the wonderful people of those countries while also practicing personal evangelism at home. Many of those trips also allowed for training of pastors. We also love to take pe.
What it reported doing in 2024
Attend conventions and events to share the ministry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 8.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.