Dovehouse Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271547433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6157149311
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $342,988
- Expenses
- $317,678
- Assets
- $72,099
- Liabilities
- $4,251
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- GAIL PITT (VICE CHAIRMA): $66,825 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM KOELLEIN (EXECUTIVE DI): $10,770 total reported compensation
- ASHLEY MACLACHLAN JAN-MAY 2024 (BOARD MEMBER): $10,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To awaken & remind people that jesus loves them & longs to have relationship with them. We do this by offering silent retreats, spiritual direction, the 19th annotation, & training for future spiritual leaders.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide spiritual direction, retreats, special events, quiet days & spiritual growth toward a deepening relationship with god in jesus christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $105.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.9% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $215K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.