EncouragementLink
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383572126
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Felch, MI, USA
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,884
- Expenses
- $101,364
- Assets
- $184,477
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Winkowitsch (President)
People named in this filing
- David Winkowitsch (President)
- Janna Winkowitsch (Secretary)
- Michael Locigno JR (Director)
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
Spiritual encouragement and dicipleship
What it reported doing in 2024
Community ministry; students and adults were enourages to take one step closer to Christ through events such as Bible studies, camps, and outreach events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.9%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 36%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.9% of revenue deployed · 36% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.