Embracing Life Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593832278
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
6267987398
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,934
Expenses
$97,371
Assets
$14,755
Liabilities
$206

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JONATHAN HUNTER (ED & PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JONATHAN HUNTER (ED & PRESIDENT)
  • ERIC DARBY (Director)
  • NEIL DRISCOLL (Secretary treas)

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

Embracing Life is a Christian healing ministry that offers a range of podcasts, programs and books which are designed to help believers struggling with life-controlling issues. Our material and teaching lead people into freedom and abundant life in Christ, helping them overcome root issues of anxiety, depression, shame, self-hatred, physical issues and more.

What it reported doing in 2025

Coinciding with ELMs latest book publication, More Power! Understanding and Experiencing the Cross, ELMs 40 years of ministry was celebrated throughout 2025 with a special, anniversary event in June including notable speakers, both national and international.ELMs Executive Director, Jonathan Hunter (with special guests), Talkin Life podcasts Our podcasts offer rich, spiritual, transformational, healing, cultural, and educational insight that have lasting relevance. They are aimed at anyone who may need encouragement in areas of vocation, inner/physical/relational wholeness and healing, living the abundant life, and so much more. Our 2025 Talkin Life podcast guests wereDenise Schick: Founder/ Director of Help 4 Families Ministry and Director of Living Stones Ministries. Both ministries offer help to families and loved ones of LGBTQ children and adults. Christopher Myers: Christian inspirational author, international events facilitator and lifelong creator of immersive experiencesSeminars/ conferences/ broadcastsMore Power! Understanding & Experiencing the Cross (7-Week program): ELM Pasadena offices, Pasadena, CAMore Glory! Healing for Shame & Self-Hatred (8-week program): ELM offices, Pasadena, CACalifornia for God and Country (media broadcast) with host Jill Davis : ELMs Jonathan Hunter, guestAs with 2024, in 2025 new online visitors from around the world were drawn to our website, www.embracinglife.us and prayed along with (and received healing from) the "Depression and Anxiety" prayers (in English, Spanish and Finnish) that we have posted. ELM also continues to upload weekly Instagram and Facebook posts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.