GAP Ministries of Augusta Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271485039
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Augusta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7067224408
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $550,720
- Expenses
- $499,985
- Assets
- $1,375,393
- Liabilities
- $6,088
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Naomi S Stanton (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Naomi S Stanton (Executive Director): $59,450 total reported compensation
- Jodi Huff (Administrative Assistant): $27,633 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of GAP Minstries is that of Christians confronting emptiness, choosing compassion, and creating community. They walk alongside of at-risk families andn those in need by providing services that will create opportunities to obtain and retain jobs and ease burde
What it reported doing in 2025
Prescription assistance/health ministry - Nurses are available each week to help individuals obtain prescriptions at little to no cost to the individual. Indentification ministry - Provides assistance obtaining birth certificates and identification cards or drivers licenses for individuals. Food Pantry - The ministry provides a choice food pantry where individuals are allowed to choose what they would like from the selection of foods available Diaper Ministry - the ministry obtains diapers from either purchase or donation and repackages them for individuals once a week. These packages are sold for $1.00. Sunday night ministry - On Sundays the ministry holds a weekly worship service and meal following for individuals. The meal is usually donated or prepared by partner churches or organizations. There is little cost to the ministry for this program Other program expenses - The ministry provides various other services for individuals like storing
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 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $6,998.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.75; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $453K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.