Lorica Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873301517
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Orange, CA, USA
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$116,173
Expenses
$103,883
Assets
$26,600
Liabilities
$3,082

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Douglas Rumford (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Douglas Rumford (CEO)
  • Jeff Hermann (Board Member and Secretary)
  • John McAlpine (Board Member and CFO)

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

The primary purpose of Lorica Ministries Lorica are to assist individuals and organizations to fully embrace the Christian experience and to propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Lorica will strive to accomplish these goals through working with churches leaders and individuals to empower them to live the Christian life in all of its aspects. Lorica will spiritually mentor coach and walk alongside these churches leaders and individuals as they endeavor to follow Jesus Christ and the Bible. Prayer will play a major role in the ministry of Lorica.

What it reported doing in 2025

SoulShaping Experience preaching and teaching for 2 congregations

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 10
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 9
  • Program expense ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 11

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 78.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 10.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.