Deeper Waters Ministry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830845494
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403535337
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,260
- Expenses
- $118,124
- Assets
- $47,467
- Liabilities
- $1,416
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- THOMAS BROWN (DIRECTOR)
- GREG SMITH (SECRETARY)
- MARK JONES (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Connecting people to a deeper life with god
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization connected over 1000 people into a deeper life with god through water sports and high adventure outdoor activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -7.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.