Emmaus Way Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752686810
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3192024344
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,887
- Expenses
- $49,292
- Assets
- $10,392
- Liabilities
- $3,511
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- ARNOLD KLEIN (FOUNDER/DIRE)
- JAMES SCHUTZ (CHAIRMAN/DIR)
- SAMUEL WINKLER (VICE CHAIRMA)
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
Emmaus way promotes knowing god personally in accordance with biblical principal and helping believers of such understand israel's place in god's plan according to his word.
What it reported doing in 2025
Emmaus way promotes a passion for knowing gods heart and ways through community lectures, hosting seminars, gatherings and public events in israel and the nations, publications of literature, supporting like-minded workers, establishing sister centers internationally, giving to the needy, working with local and international leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 66.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.