Elevate Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920538022
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lawrence, KS, USA
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$131,189
Expenses
$131,099
Assets
$45,820

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lauren Kelly (Director President of Board and Director of Operations)
  • Jonathan Quintanilla Carias (Director Vice President of Board)

People named in this filing

  • Lauren Kelly (Director President of Board and Director of Operations)
  • Paula Cox (Director Secretary of Board)
  • Rachel Hoover (Director Treasurer of Board)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Elevate Ministries Inc exists to transform future generations in Guatemala by offering educational support academic opportunities and Christian discipleship to students and their families.

What it reported doing in 2025

School Scholarship Program: This year 28 students received financial support for their academic needs. This money went towards paying their school enrollments monthly tuitions books school supplies and uniforms. Many of these students would not be able to continue studying after elementary school due to financial instability in their homes. In 2025 2 of our scholarship students graduated from high school and 2 students graduated from college.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 32
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 32%; rating input score 32
  • Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 32% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.