Echo Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843675316
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Highlands City, FL, USA
Phone
8632727948
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,129
Expenses
$51,327
Assets
$4,112
Liabilities
$116

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER STIRK (DIRECTOR)
  • JUSTIN STIRK (OFFICER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Echo was established to help provide for spiritual and tangible needs of children in foster care. Children are removed every day from their homes due to abuse and neglect. Almost always they arrive at a new home with only clothes on their backs. We are an organization designed to help provide for the tangible needs of these children through our many echo shops as well as work within the community to strengthen the system of support.

What it reported doing in 2024

We have five echo shops with more in process. We work to assist caregivers by lessening their financial repsponsibility so they can focus on the important mission of caring for the children. Each shop has a team of volunteers ready to listen, pray for and serve these families. Foster, adoptive and kinship caregivers are offered seven items per child in their legal custody, per month, when they bring their child placement. New placements receive 14 items on their first visit. All items are free of charge. We colldect new and gently used items including clothing, undergarments, shoes, diapers, furniture, baby equipment, sports equipment, school supplies, hygiene products and much more which is sorted in our warehouse and distributed to the echo shops.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -64% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.