Fully Furnished Ministries
Legal name: Fully Furnished Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262804381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Norcross, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6784857236
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,035,990
- Expenses
- $717,109
- Assets
- $566,160
- Liabilities
- $4,202
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Dance (Executive Director)
- Jeff Myers (President and Chairman of the Board)
Highest reported compensation
- John Dance (Executive Director): $94,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Living and sharing the Gospel through the gift of furniture. Fully Furnished Ministries is the only furniture bank north of US 285 and was established in 2003 by a group of volunteers with a simple idea of matching those desiring to give furniture away to those in need in a God-honoring way. The needs kept coming - from many different circumstances: apartment fires, hurricanes, floods, refugee settlement, family transitional housing programs, women fleeing abuse or choosing life, veterans needing housing and sometimes a family just needing a new start. In 2021 the Ministry was able to hire our first full-time staff person, Executive Director, John Dance, as well as two part-time staff to assist in warehouse maintenance and community outreach activitie.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fully Furnished Ministries strives to end furniture poverty by restoring dignity to people emerging from crisis through the gift of basic household furnishings. In 2025 we fully furnished 518 families, delivering on average 20 pieces of furniture plus bedding dishes and other necessary household items. We delivered over 10,000 furnishings to families in need. We picked up over 20,000 donated items from more than 1,000 homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $102.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $651K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 45 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.