Heart Ministry Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810614816
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
4024512321
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Banks, Pantries

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,519,731
Expenses
$11,779,149
Assets
$15,090,707
Liabilities
$2,643,932

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMIE WALKER (PRESIDENT)
  • ANDREW COLLINS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DAMANY RAHN (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAMANY RAHN (CEO): $168,707 total reported compensation
  • AMY HOLMES (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $131,281 total reported compensation
  • NICOLE HUBER (CIO (THRU JANUARY 2025)): $126,482 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Heart ministry center's mission is to provide food, healthcare, and a way forward to people severely affected by poverty in the omaha area. Heart ministry center's core programs include a choice food distribution program, monen healthcare clinic (which provides medical, dental, vision, and mental health services), willing partner case management program, fresh start job training/placement program, and two social enterprises (fresh start laundromat and fresh floral).

What it reported doing in 2024

Heart ministry's job training programs: the fresh start program provides intensive support for omaha community members so they can break cycles of unemployment, addiction, toxic relationships and mental health issues. If a participant makes it through the 3 week trial period, they are assigned a fresh start facilitator & participate in programming 6 days a week (40 hours weekly) for 9 months on the heart ministry center campus. This programming includes skill building groups, work in the heart ministry center food distribution area, budgeting, & job placement. To aide in the support, bills are paid during the period by the center. The evolution of fresh start is our social enterprise laundromat and the flower shop. The laundromat business unit created 5 jobs in laundry, 3 jobs in floral, and a viable good/service for both community utilization & improvement. Fresh start laundromat provides laundry services to local community members. A portion of the members receivefree or reduced services. Fresh floral provides floral arrangements and event services. Both enterprise initiatives are a community-minded social enterprises in omaha that provides employmentopportunities for graduates of the fresh start program. All employees are provided job training and short-term employment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $31.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.