Fortified Marriages Ministry

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
204134908
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chandler, AZ, USA
Phone
4806992515
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,731
Expenses
$50,208
Assets
$25,571
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Chris Garner (President/Excecutive Director)
  • Scott Darling (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Chris Garner (President/Excecutive Director)
  • Carmen Garner (Treasurer/Assistant Director)
  • Scott Darling (Vice-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

Exclusively charitable, religious & educational purposes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Counseled 50 couples and 27 individuals - a total of 169 sessions

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% 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

REVIEW - 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: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 2.1%; rating input score 2
  • Program expense ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -43.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.1% of revenue deployed · 1.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $800 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.