Kemper Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870790094
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Indian Trail, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7045759288
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,563
- Expenses
- $25,754
- Assets
- $6,851
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jerry D Kemper (President/Tres.)
- Stephanie D Kemper (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jerry D Kemper (President/Tres.)
- Stephanie D Kemper (Vice President)
- Beth Malone (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote Christian principles and impact lives for eternity through Christian music, service and education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Music Development (Teaching/Training through weekly development & lessons; Recording of students original songs)This ministry activity includes the provision of private music education lessons for students ages 5 and up. Lessons are currently conducted at the KMI ministry office and include voice, piano, violin, drum, and guitar lessons. Group classes and seminars are also offered. Recording of Students original songs is also a current activity. Not only is music training provided, but Christian leadership, values, and principles are promoted.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.9%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 19; 19th 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: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.9% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.