First Priority Tri County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 371566601
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Corbin, KY, USA
Phone: 6065213313
Rating: 88
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Christianity
Affiliation: Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue: $102,452
Expenses: $116,557
Assets: $42,713
Liabilities: $11,500

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JEFF KECK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

TIMOTHY BARGO (DIRECTOR)
TAMMY C MATNEY (TREASURER)
JEFF KECK (PRESIDENT)

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

Provide ongoing training, resources, and networking opportunities to students, youth pastors, and other volunteers to help them implement first priotity strategy on school campuses.

What it reported doing in 2025

Work with local churches to provide and serve approximately 500 meals to student athletes at regional basketball tournament. In addition to the meal, strudents also receive a first priority t-shirt. Bibles are also available for students and fans that would like to have one.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 91% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 99
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 22
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K 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: 9 filing years from 2017 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.