Groundswell Stl
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990591105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148339616
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,824
- Expenses
- $63,163
- Assets
- $6,183
- Liabilities
- $342
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Andrus (President)
People named in this filing
- Herman Armstrong (Director)
- Jennifer Zink (Director)
- Jonathan Andrus (President)
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
We connect the Church in Greater St Louis with local frontline ministries cultivate collaboration between ministry leaders and catalyze the movement of believers followers of Jesus into greater missional engagement
What it reported doing in 2025
In Spring 2025 Groundswell STL supported two Perspectives on the World Christian Movement classes in the St Louis area one at Garden City Church Shiloh IL and the other at Chatham Bible Church Hazelwood MO This support was provided by supplying 27 volunteers to lead and conduct separate classes as well as provide 15 different lectures one per class Perspectives is a fifteen-week discipleship course exploring different aspects of Gods global purpose in a multi-faceted learning experience The course examines the story of God fulfilling His promises from four vantage points or perspectives Biblical Historical Cultural and Strategic Its a study program rooted in Scripture clarifying each believers remarkable opportunity to co-labor with God in His global purpose The goal of this program is to reshape the trajectory of the rest of a persons life so that they will see themselves as a part of His divine plan to spread His good news to the entire world one person at a time
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
MIXED - 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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.2%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.2% of revenue deployed · 3.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.