Go Therefore Ministries
Legal name: Go Therefore Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271216179
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mt. Juliet, TN, United States
- Phone
- 6158820042
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,925
- Expenses
- $128,860
- Assets
- $218,453
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF EBEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JEFF EBEL (PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN CHANEY (SECRETARY)
- BRIAN FROST (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Go Therefore Ministries distributes Life Reference manuals/Bibles to encourage recipients, and to help them gain understanding and perspective on the life issues they encounter daily. We pray that every recipient of a Life Reference Bible finds encouragement, clarity, and perspective in their daily journey. Your support makes this mission possible—100% of contributions to Go Therefore Ministries directly fund the distribution of these Bibles to individuals and organizations in need. Whether through one-time gifts, monthly donations, or contributions exceeding the fair market value of our Life Reference Bible, every tax-deductible gift fuels our commitment to spreading God’s Word, creating a lasting impact on hearts and communities nationwide. The World English Bible (WEB) offers a clear, modern translation of scripture, making it highly accessible to readers of all backgr.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 2004, go therefore ministries has been transforming lives with the physicians life reference, a bible designed to reach physicians, staff, and patients across the united states with the transformative power of gods word. What began as a vision to share divine wisdom has grown into a nationwide movement, delivering hope and guidance to countless individuals. Our carefully crafted editions, featuring a variety of covers, cater to diverse audiences, ensuring that people from all walks of life find real answers to lifes challenges through the timeless truth of scripture. We pray that every recipient of a life reference bible finds encouragement, clarity, and perspective in their daily journey.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -186.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $88K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.