Lead Ministry

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843609246
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Katy, TX, USA
Phone
8325945016
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$194,978
Expenses
$194,116
Assets
$37,871
Liabilities
$12,683

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Peggy Hahn (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Peggy Hahn (Executive Director): $64,056 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

LEAD is focused on connecting leaders to each other and congregations to their neighbors. We do this by equipping congregations to deeply listen to God in scripture each other and their neighbors. Through listening we help congregations define their purpose and set goals that build upon the needs of their neighborhoods.

What it reported doing in 2024

LEAD Ministries provides professional development for pastors and strategic planning services for congregations and judicatories. We have served hundreds of individual leaders judicatories and congregations all across the United States with online learning resource development strategic planning that moves them to address issues of home insecurity food insecurity addiction issues and care for the most vulnerable in society. All of work is rooted in listening deeply to God through scripture and prayer the faith community and the neighbors around the church buildings. Congregations learn to fully love God and love their neighbors expand their worldviews cross differences that have kept people separated in the past.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 66
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -32.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -114.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $158K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.