Hedge Ministry Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 812946742
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2020–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location: Floral, AR, USA
Phone: 5016914324
Rating: 91
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Student Services, Organizations of Students

Reported finances

Revenue: $46,624
Expenses: $46,788
Assets: $7,063
Liabilities: $321

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JASON SPROUSE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

JASON SPROUSE (PRESIDENT)
ASHLYN DOSSETT (SECRETARY)

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

To honor and glorify god by helping those that struggle with addiction and alcoholism, and providing assistance to their families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Address, educate, and provide aid and relief to people with addictions and their families.

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 99% 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: 100
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 27
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -0.4%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -28.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
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 41/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.