Gordons Equipping Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461073081
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dothan, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2055338726
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,847
- Expenses
- $117,551
- Assets
- $77,805
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICKY THOMAS GORDON (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- SARAH PIPPIN GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT/ DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- RICKY THOMAS GORDON (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- SARAH PIPPIN GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT/ DIRECTOR)
- CATHERINE GORDON GUNAWAN (SECRETARY/ 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote ministries that will benefit the church of jesus christ worldwide; equp christians for works of service; facilitate believers growth and maturity and help people in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
To promote ministries that will benefit the church of jesus christ worldwide; equip christians for works of service; facilitate belevers growth and maturity and help people in need. This payment is made to one of the foundation's director's in reimbursement of expenses of the ministry of living way church in shizuoka japan and the ai no kesshin including outreach and the care of multiple foster children, handicapped children and others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 39.8%; rating input score 40
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: -0.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40% of revenue deployed · 39.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.