Desperately Dependent Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471242957
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4237775234
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $190,199
- Expenses
- $147,680
- Assets
- $149,502
- Liabilities
- $523
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- J Kirk Lewis (President)
- Melanie Lewis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- J Kirk Lewis (President)
- Melanie Lewis (Vice President)
- Nena Powell (Board Member)
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
DESPERATELY DEPENDENT COMMUNITY exists to engage and encourage Christian leaders to find Christ relevant to every area of life thereby promoting effective, sustained ministries. While cultivating a community of compassionate caregivers who desire to serve the body of Christ, our ministry motivates spiritual maturity.
What it reported doing in 2025
CONTINUUM/MENTORING: Provided online biblical counseling training and mentorship through 16 courses, 6 digital books, and Bible study programs, benefiting 75 students - training Christian leaders, missionaries, and counselors for effective ministry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 revenue 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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 3
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: 22.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3% of revenue deployed · 2.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.