Idols Aside Ministries
Legal name: Idols Aside Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263803093
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Paducah, KY, United States
- Phone
- 863.514.9555
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,307,641
- Expenses
- $908,204
- Assets
- $3,272,992
- Liabilities
- $25,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Wright (President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Wright (President)
- Kevin Hawkins (Secretary)
- Devon Smith (Officer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To introduce fatherless youth to Christ through the avenues God has called us to use and to inspire the body of Christ to rise up and do the same! The Vision of IAM. Idols Aside Ministries exists to model Christ to fatherless youth, single mothers, and their families by building lasting relationships, consistent discipleship, and opportunities to experience God through hunting retreats, sports camps, community outreach, and family support. Our vision is to see the body of Christ equipped and empowered to reach fatherless youth and single mothers by connecting them to a local body church. Idols Aside Ministries is a 501(c)(3) corporation and a Christ-Centered ministry that has been serving Central Florida since 2009 and expanded to Western Kentucky in 2017.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hunting Retreats, Sports Clinics, International Mission Trips - for the purpose of teaching and reaching kids for Jesus through the avenue of the events. To establish strong relationships, provide continual discipleship and guidance while modeling Christ to the community, single mothers and families of fatherless youth. Bringing hope to the fatherless through the heart and life changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $57.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 30.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.6; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $705K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.