JesusOnline Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
061656838
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Higley, AZ, USA
Phone
(800) 981-5856
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,899,574
Expenses
$1,683,216
Assets
$1,773,283
Liabilities
$39,779

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LARRY CHAPMAN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • HELMUT TEICHERT (EXECUTIVE DI): $108,738 total reported compensation
  • PHYLICIA SNOW (VP OF DONOR): $100,108 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Use the internet to help people worldwide discover who Jesus is, receive Him as Lord and Savior, follow Him through personal online discipleship, and share Him with others. JesusOnline’s mission** is to use the internet to help people worldwide discover who Jesus really is, receive Him as Lord and Savior, follow Him through personal online discipleship, and share Him with others. [[More About Our Mission]]( For the first time in history, it is possible to share the gospel with people in almost every country of the world on their mobile devices, even in the privacy of their homes. > Thank you for your magnificent website about Jesus and Christianity. I have been a skeptic as well as a person who has been searching for answers and logic from the bible. I have also been trying to put this in connection with science and have it all to make sense. You made it all clear to me. I have...

What it reported doing in 2025

Jesusonline ministries uses state-of-the-art internet technologies, including google adwords and facebook, to pose questions about jesus to people all over the world on thousands of websites. Those readers whose interest is piqued follow the link to a corresponding article on one of the websites. These free articles present strong evidence about the person of jesus christ and for the reliability of the new testament. Additionally, jesusonline ministries equips the international church (individuals, missionaries, and pastors) by providing free, downloadable discipleship materials, online bibles, and other christ-centered resources. Original articles are made available worldwide through the y-jesus.com and y-origins.com websites, and through the jo discipleship app. Additional website links have been developed to provide discipleship materials for spiritual growth and multiplication. App.jesusonline.com is the website version of the jo discipleship app for spritual growth, which may be accessed anywhere in the world. Jesusonline.com, featuring video content and shorter articles targets younger generations and oral learners specifically. The jo discipleship app also helps visitors continue to grow in their spiritual understanding and relationship with god. During 2025, there were 52,820,523 visits from people around the world to jesusonline's websites where people discovered who jesus really is. As a result, 3,541,324 people committed their lives to christ and the organization added 1,615,287 app users. In 2024, there were approximately 25 million visits. As a result, 1,698,926 people committed their lives to christ.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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 - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 41.9%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.