JOYPlease
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990984811
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9498788442
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,534
- Expenses
- $48,176
- Assets
- $19,640
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Diana Matheson Timmons (Founder)
- Mark Matheson (Treasurer)
- Becky Hahn (Secretary)
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
(a)Reaching people with the love and hope of Jesus, especially those who are broken and hurting, by encouraging, coaching, and mentoring them in how to experience the kind of JOY that cannot be removed by the difficulties of this life. (b)To provide pastoral counseling, Bible studies, conferences, retreats, and small group sessions for those in need of spiritual encouragement. (c)To draw people from all walks of life to the good news of Jesus and the unfaltering joy He brings.(d)To collect and disburse any and all necessary funds for the maintenance of said Corporation and the accomplishment of its purpose within the State of California and elsewhere.(e)To make distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended.(f)This Corporation is also organized to promote, encourage, and foster any other similar religious and charitable activities; to accept, hold, invest, reinvest and administer any gifts, leg
What it reported doing in 2025
(a)Reaching people with the love and hope of Jesus, especially those who are broken and hurting, by encouraging, coaching, and mentoring them in how to experience the kind of JOY that cannot be removed by the difficulties of this life. (b)To provide pastoral counseling, Bible studies, conferences, retreats, and small group sessions for those in need of spiritual encouragement. (c)To draw people from all walks of life to the good news of Jesus and the unfaltering joy He brings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -54.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -42.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th 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 · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.