Desert Light Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030508977
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Valley Springs, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6055936728
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $12,361
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Steven Wold (President)
- George Brown (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- James Steven Wold (President)
- George Brown (Vice President)
- Sidney Ray Sprunger (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
The primary mission of Desert Light Ministries is to care for ministry leaders through pastoral counseling, mentoring, encouragement, etc., as well as to consult with/assist churches facing transitional times. Accomplishing this mission involves leadership development and teaching through seminars, retreats, and educational classes. The overall goal is to facilitate the health of ministry leaders which in turn helps develop healthy churches.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since Desert Light Ministries was dissolved on 12/31/2025, there are no program service accomplishments for short year ending 03/31/26 which was for the winding down of financial obligations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.