Discovering Truth Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851014904
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6196634218
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $315,521
- Expenses
- $346,540
- Assets
- $347,800
- Liabilities
- $861
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jamie Adele Wood (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jamie Adele Wood (President & CEO): $82,511 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 bring Scripture to people in spiritual need through Bible-based study curriculum for churches and personal use, books and devotional resources, one-minute Truth Talk radio spots, online publications, live speaking events, and women's ministry team and program development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conferences and Speaking Engagements: Live teaching and speaking remain central to the ministry's work. During the filing year, founder Jamie Adele Wood spoke 15 times, spanning both the East and West coasts of the United States, reaching women through conferences, Bible studies, and special events. She also continued teaching a weekly Wednesday evening Bible study at her home church, which launched with 240 members. The ministry operates from its headquarters in Santee, California, with 6 paid staff and 14 regular volunteers, including a 6-person monthly in-office prayer team. Testimonies from participants consistently point to the impact of these gatherings, where biblical truth is communicated with clarity, encouragement, and practical application.Through these avenues, Discovering Truth Ministries has seen 86 women make first-time commitments to follow Jesus during the year, and those are only the decisions the ministry is aware of. Founder Jamie Adele Wood was also invited by nationally recognized women's ministry leader Nancy DeMoss to join a small group of emerging speakers and teachers at the annual Revive Our Hearts conference, an opportunity for mentorship and collaboration on how to serve women well in today's culture. The combination of published resources, radio and digital ministry, and in-person teaching continues to fulfill the organization's mission of helping others learn, love, and live out God's Word.
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
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $288K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.