Holy Ground Explorations
Legal name: Holy Ground Explorations Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474069848
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Coeur D’Alene, ID, United States
- Phone
- 208-755-4759
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,339
- Expenses
- $151,746
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL STOLEBARGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL STOLEBARGER (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON STOLEBARGER (VICE PRESIDE)
- BRANDY IVERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Perhaps what best says it all is the Mission Statement: Holy Ground Explorations is a Jesus-centered ministry devoted to equipping Believers by teaching the uncompromised Word of God, prayer, and small group fellowship, as well as supporting and exploring Israel. Our Team. Following the Lord’s leading throughout his life has involved taking many “risks” which has led to a plethora of experiences, all leading him to this new chapter in his life. In May 2015, God birthed an exciting new ministry, Holy Ground Explorations. Dan, along with his wife, Sharon, co-founded HGE and they are excited about where this journey will lead. Dan is passionate about Israel, the Word of God, and raising up followers of Jesus. Dan and Sharon Stolebarger have been married 39 years and have been blessed with three sons, Lucas, Trevor (wife Alicia), and Jesse (wife Whitney), as well as five GRANDsons, and...
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote the gospel through bible study and holy land exploration
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -109.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.