Just Thinking Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861806904
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2023, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Queen Creek, AZ, USA
Phone
4044021183
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,635
Expenses
$33,425
Assets
$25,107
Liabilities
$104

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DARRELL HARRISON (PRESIDENT)
  • VIRGIL WALKER (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DARRELL HARRISON (PRESIDENT)
  • VIRGIL WALKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DAWAIN ATKINSON (TREASURER)

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

To educate others on viewing and understanding cultural issues from a biblical worldview.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, just thinking ministries (jtm) continued its mission to provide biblical education on cultural issues by releasing five new podcast episodes, bringing the series to a milestone of over 16 million total downloads since 2017. The ministry's outreach included more than 30 domestic and international speaking engagements at conferences and churches to further its educational goals. To support these efforts, jtm optimized its resource distribution by relaunching its online store with an upgraded payment processor. Additionally, for the sixth consecutive year, the organization partnered with the master's university to fund the just thinking scholarship, providing $10,000 annually to five students as part of a $200,000 multi-year commitment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 18
  • 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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -246.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -59.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th 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 · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.