Dave Deselm Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832073516
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2602180669
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,411
- Expenses
- $129,718
- Assets
- $71,617
- Liabilities
- $1,425
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER WIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER WIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
- GREG MACDONALD (TREASURER)
- DUANE BURRIS (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing resources such as blogs, devotionals, coaching and more to pastors to help them equip everyday people to become every day disciples.
What it reported doing in 2025
Dave deselm ministries offers resources for everyday pastors to help them equip everyday people to become every day disciples. These resources include coaching, speaking, free downloads and more. This year featured 1,100 free preaching calendars downloaded,9 speaking engagements, 65 hours of coaching provided to 12 pastors/leaders, and a newly created youtube channel with over 570 views. In addition, the "my cancer journey" blog was created with 15 new posts, over 4,200 views, and 661 suscribers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 - 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.