I Am Here Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830947960
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 714-970-4950
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,432
- Expenses
- $145,048
- Assets
- $413,973
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WAYNE PALICA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- WAYNE PALICA (CEO)
- MATT PRITCHETT (SECRETARY)
- NATHAN HANNING (CFO)
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
I AM HERE MINISTRIES provides love and hope for youth and young adults who have experienced abuse and neglect.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community trust
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 88; 88th 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: -120% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.