Disciple Data Inc
Legal name: Discipledata Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351183820
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Carmel, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3177132470
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,866,984
- Expenses
- $3,955,233
- Assets
- $1,151,359
- Liabilities
- $988,229
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM AMBLER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TOM AMBLER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $185,380 total reported compensation
- KEVIN HESLER (VP OF OPERATIONS AND SECRETARY): $168,771 total reported compensation
- MARK CHYBA (CRM IMPLEMENTATION SPECIALIST): $166,838 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve non-profit ministries through the strength of our software product and mission-minded partnership. We couldn’t be more pleased with the team work and accessible support you all are providing to us! Disciples Church Extension Fund (Disciples of Christ) We trust the people at DDI to provide excellent technical expertise and reliable services. Thanks to DDI, our consultants have access to information at any time and from any location. DDI handles the complexities of rapidly changing technology so we can focus on our mission and ministries. We trust the people at DDI to provide excellent technical expertise and reliable services. Joanne Rendall We use quite a number of the systems...
What it reported doing in 2025
To develop, implement, maintain, and support financial software as well as provide training and consulting for nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 87.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 14 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $298K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.