Little Ones Ministries
Legal name: Little Ones Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431914361
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, US
- Phone
- 4056648919
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $307,599
- Expenses
- $331,965
- Assets
- $13,597
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Denton (CEO/Board Member)
- Brandon Adams (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Denton (CEO/Board Member): $49,200 total reported compensation
- Dusty Harris (Missions Director): $15,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to engage the community in ways that connects them to the local church; we want them to see the Church as a source of hope and help.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rios de Esperenza, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico Operated outreach programs through local churches. We continued to provide food, summer camps, retreats, vacation bible school, childhood development, sports, music, and arts training. We worked with over 300 children on a daily basis. We helped many families in impoverished areas by teaching them how to take care of their children. Our teams continued to help build a vo-tech center, bakery, and auto maintenance facility. The vineyard was started the previous year. The vines are still too immature for their to be any significant production yet. We are continuing to develop the farm. Buildings and a wall around the property are still in progress.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 83% of its reported program spending out as 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 78.2%; rating input score 78; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 63.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $212K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.