Door of Faith Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412063114
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6197870770
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rural Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,324,328
- Expenses
- $1,269,311
- Assets
- $167,575
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynete Schuetz (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DJSchuetz (CEP)
- Lynete Schuetz (CEO)
- Larry Bender (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To Minister to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of children at risk in Baja, Mexico.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Organization provides humanitarian aid to people living in Baja, Mexico. Assistance is made to Casa Hogar Puerta de Fe in La Mission, Baja, Mexico. IThe Orphanage gvies care to over 100 children daily. Additionally, direct aid of food and clothing was made to more than 150 families per week, twelve 12 homes were built for poor families in the community around the orphanage, and new roofs were provided for 6 homes. Ongoing Education Program for young adults raised at the Orphanage. Tthere are approx 20 young adults in college. Over the last few years there have been graduations for the students who have received degrees in Architecture, Mediciane, Forensic Science, Psychology, and the Law.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.