Forgiven Ministries, Inc.
Legal name: Forgiven Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800613781
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- (814) 451-0479
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,238
- Expenses
- $65,304
- Assets
- $67,623
- Liabilities
- $31,161
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lillian Beatty (President)
People named in this filing
- Lillian Beatty (President)
- Walter Beatty (Treasurer)
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
Assisting previously incarcerated men and women find healing and self-sufficiency. Obtaining safe and affordable housing can be a main concern that many individuals are presented with when they are released from prison. It is important to plan ahead and consider what residential plan will work best and what is needed for this goal to be achieved. Saving money can ensure that when it comes time to leave prison, financial barriers do not hinder success. With all of the changes that happen after release, individuals may become overwhelmed. Transitional living might be a good option that could help alleviate some of the stress by providing continuous, direct support. Working with a Forgiven Ministries will help with identifying resources as well as assistance with setting up p.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide housing and services in order to enhance the abilityof people recently released from correctional institutions to be self sufficient.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.