Going the Distance Adventure Ministry Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593542697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Seminole, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7273949483
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,471
- Expenses
- $143,438
- Assets
- $39,588
- Liabilities
- $289,576
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Douglas Garner (CEO/Trustee)
Highest reported compensation
- Douglas Garner (CEO/Trustee): $51,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian Education, Youth Rec Programs, Fitness
What it reported doing in 2025
Adventure program: [5 event(s); 168 participants] multi-day christian adventure trips: camping, team building, leadership training, bible studies, caving, backpacking, geocaching, rock climbing, service projects, habitat for humanity, rappelling, white water rafting, swimming holes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.31; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39% of revenue deployed · 38.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.