Forerunners for Christ Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581652888
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lawrenceville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7707785056
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,195
- Expenses
- $95,859
- Assets
- $38,355
- Liabilities
- $14,444
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- H Bradley White Jr (President)
People named in this filing
- H Bradley White Jr (President)
- Bartly W Jones (Campus Minister and Treasurer)
- Michelle L Jones (Secretary)
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
Forerunners For Christ is a religious organization which exists to glorify Jesus Christ in all ministry endeavors. Our primary focus in ministry is reaching and teaching students on college campuses as well as supporting missionaries and other organizations involved in world missions. We partner with like minded ministries in serving students by conducting evangelistic and discipleship activities designed to reach and train them for Jesus Christ and His purposes. We also partner with other missionaries and ministry organizations focused on world missions through assisting them with financial support and administration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our student and campus ministry conducts weekly outreach activities during the Fall and Spring Semesters including a beliefs survey booth and one to one ministry conversations. We also help facilitate special events both social and informative in nature designed to communicate the love and truths of Jesus to students. Our discipleship training activities include a weekly student gathering with worship, prayer and Biblical instruction. Also, we conduct small group Bible studies and discussion groups as well as meet with students individually for counseling and equipping. In addition, we encourage and participate with students in attending student and campus ministry conferences. During the Summer semester we decrease our on campus work to raise support for our ministry. However, we do continue hosting a weekly discussion group with students and meet individually with students a few days a week. Our ministry work impacts hundreds of students on an annual basis. Our long term goal is to work with the Lord in raising up a new generation of Christ centered, Biblical based leaders in all aspects of society as well as strong future fathers, mothers and families which are the building blocks of a healthy society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
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: 0.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.