Home Improvement Ministries
Legal name: Home Improvement Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510469996
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bedford, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7812756473
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,991
- Expenses
- $554,155
- Assets
- $462,545
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Friesen (President)
- Virginia Friesen (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Paul Friesen (President): $144,089 total reported compensation
- Virginia Friesen (Vice President): $101,663 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Home Improvement Ministries (H.I.M.) is to equip, encourage, and bring hope to churches, families, and marriages as they seek to establish and live out biblical designs for relationships. What we believe. Home Improvement Ministries is a Christian organization without ties to any one church or denomination. Mission Statement. Support Staff Richard Hendricks, Barbara Steele, Cynthia Tipton, and Gabby Warren. _It comes as no surprise to any pastor or married couple that marriage and parenting are facing unprecedented pressures and challenges these days. Because marriages and families are the heart of any thriving church, it is paramount that the church do all she can to encourage and equip people to help families succeed._ _In that regard, I can wholeheartedly endorse the Friesens. We have had the practice of bringing them in regularly to encourage and equip our church...
What it reported doing in 2025
Supporting Global Efforts: Working with and encouraging other organizations to help further the mission of teaching biblically-based family and marital programs. During this year, both full-time employees traveled internationally in support of the organization's global efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $515K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.