Engage Your Destiny
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812707761
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Franklin, TN, US
- Phone
- 9522002646
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,660,495
- Expenses
- $1,126,047
- Assets
- $622,111
- Liabilities
- $49,725
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BEN PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $160,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Combating suicide in the military with faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
Military ministry: destiny begins with engagement. As a team we focus on engaging military, veterans, and their families through digital and in person experiences. All for the purpose and goal of relational destiny.we begin with the end in mind where destiny will flourish. Once we engage, we lead our military, veterans, and their families into first class resources where they can find hope, healing, and purpose through faith.mentorship: the warrior's journey exists to journey with you through your entire experience of serving in the military and living as a veteran with one-on-one mentorship.healing: the resiliency project is a four-pillar program that address the areas of psychological, physical, spiritual, and social wellness. We develop whole health care plans that assess and treat the challenges of military service and combat such as ptsd, chronic/acute pain, sleep issues, isolation, street, and moral injury. Care plans are provided through three main delivery methods: clinics, corradiated care, and collaborative care.small groups: reboot combat recovery peacefully addresses military trauma. Veterans or active-duty service members of all eras are welcome to attend. Spouses and caregivers also benefit greatly and are encouraged to attend. The course is 12 weeks long and most locations offer meals and childcare to remove barriers for families who wish to attend.our impact: in 2024 we establish the engage your destiny ministry model on 3active duty bases: fort campbell ky, fort wainwright ak, & joint base elmendorf richardson. Over 2,307 soldiershave taken a next step to followchrist since we began this work.
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
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.2%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 42.2% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $701K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $161K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 42/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.