Higginbotham Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475353852
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Lubbock, Texas, US
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,481
- Expenses
- $113,255
- Assets
- $489
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lee Higginbotham (President and Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Lee Higginbotham (President and Treasurer)
- Michael Wisian (Director and Secretary)
- Brandy Higginbotham (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are dedicated to the emotional freedom and spiritual growth of God's people by providing accessible and affordable Christian counseling, life coaching, and mentoring.
What it reported doing in 2025
Christian counseling ministry; estimated 50 people; biblical discipleship counseling and pastoral care ministry for individuals couples and families in many different environments provided by NCCA Licensed Clinical Christian Counselor.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
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: -0.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.