Judah Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161616713
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3173735183
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,413,953
- Expenses
- $4,646,632
- Assets
- $1,375,948
- Liabilities
- $556,629
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alisia Jackson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Alisia Jackson (Executive Director): $391,582 total reported compensation
- Eugene West (CFO): $130,933 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe every child deserves a childhood and has the right to reach his or her full potential. Because we hold these beliefs, we strive to provide a rich environment for each child to progress in their social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills so that they can completely function in society as well as facilitate the learning and understanding of social skills and life rules.
What it reported doing in 2025
CCDF and Program Services. Judah Ministries ensures every child is equipped with the proper knowledge to begin their educational journey while providing every child with quality love, care and a healthy environment. Judah develops every child's social motor and comprehensive skills which allow them to become successful, healthy and productive,
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $392K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.