God's Great Outdoors
Legal name: God's Great Outdoors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311599968
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Powers, MI, USA
- Phone
- (906) 825-2350
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,981
- Expenses
- $106,278
- Assets
- $20,991
- Liabilities
- $226
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEAN HULCE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEAN HULCE (PRESIDENT)
- TIM JONES (CHAIRMAN)
- PAUL GATHANY (SECRETARY/TR)
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
God's Great Outdoors, Inc. is a Christian ministry that shares the Gospel through outdoor adventures, media, and events. The organization operates a weekly radio program, 'God's Great Outdoors - The Trail to Adventure,' and provides daily devotionals, newsletters, and ministry resources to encourage spiritual growth.
What it reported doing in 2024
The trail to adventure, the weekly, 25-minute syndicated radio broadcast, has been the heart of the ministry. God continues to bless. We now provide a variety of media to assist in personal spiritual growth and to share with others the gospel of jesus. From print media to video and podcasting, we continue to lay hold of means to share glimpses of god's glory in the creation around us and through lifes changes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
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: -6.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.