Lakeland Child Evangelism Ministrie
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351142326
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Winona Lake, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5745945344
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,322
- Expenses
- $180,019
- Assets
- $233,990
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL REFIOR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL REFIOR (PRESIDENT)
- DOUG HOFFERT (VICE PRESIDE)
- AARON TALBERT (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 child evangelism
What it reported doing in 2024
Promote child evangelism, reaching and serving over 10,000 individuals through clubs, film ministry, video library, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 60.2%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 50%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 60.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.