Jesse C Fletcher Seminary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861553598
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2107567555
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Graduate, Professional Schools (Separate Entities)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,668
- Expenses
- $117,762
- Assets
- $122,747
- Liabilities
- $79
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- REV STEPHANIE NASH (CHAIRMAN)
- DAVID LITTLE (LEGAL ADVISOR/ATTORNEY, TRUSTEE)
- REV MASYN EVANS-CLEMENTS (TRUSTEE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Theological education
What it reported doing in 2024
We served about 24 students in multiple classes at the graduate and certification level. Based upon student and faculty feedback, our educational products and services expertly meet the need for practical education for lay and ordained students that can be readily implemented in various contexts, e.g., creating a new campus ministry. What happens in our classrooms is spirit-filled and life changing as students take what they've learned in class each week to the pulpit in san antonio, the church committee in lubbock, or the kenyan orphanage they lead to share it with those they serve. We have earned a reputation as a truly welcoming, inclusive, and ecumenical seminary, offering high quality online classes to lay and ordained students that are taught by experts who have lived what they teach. This attracts serious students, outstanding adjunct faculty and important partners like the alliance for baptists, the chaplaincy innovation lab, and the integer network. We have changed lives through our intentional recruitment from groups that have been historically disadvantaged and often excluded from theological education. One example: an adjunct faculty member inspired a black pastor by inspiring him to look in the mirror, a reflection on leadership that changed his relationship with his congregation.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -24.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -52.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.