Freedom Forever Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510582315
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Paducah, KY, USA
Phone
2704081366
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,918
Expenses
$114,901
Assets
$78,781
Liabilities
$2,072

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • LEE RUST (EXECTUTIVE DIRECTOR)

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

Freedom forever ministies exists to glorify god by providing biblical principles to incarcerated women through worship, scripture and life applications. The purpose being to lead women into a life changing relationship with jesus christ where they will be redeemed, restored and returned to their families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Freedom forever ministries serves as an outreach to the incarcerated women in the mccracken county ky regional jail, the ross cash minimum security prison for women in fredonial ky and the Kentucky correctional institute for women in peewee valley ky. The ministry serves the mccracken county jail weekly on mondays and fridays. The ross-cash facility on monday evenings weekly and the correctinal institute on thursdays weekly and saturdays monthly. During prior years the ministry spent many hours at the mccracken county jail with the female inmates. The average attendence of 20. During prior years approximately 200 plus hours was spent at the ross-cash facilty with an average attendence of 20. The ministry also spent an about 200 hours at the Kentucky correctional facility witn and average of 60 in attendence. Freedom forever ministries had approximately 40 volunteers in its ministry in prior years. The ministry had to adapt due to limitations related to covid. Because of covid the ministry was not allowed back into any facility until july 2022. However, the ministry used a food truck "the coney express" to train at-risk women important job skills. A minimum of 40 hours per week was spent training and mentoring former prisoners and at risk women. With a core group of 5 to 6 volunteers helping the food truck coach the young women to learn and implement job skills.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.