Luke 4 18 Ministry

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922246720
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Sun City, AZ, USA
Phone
5122613091
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,374
Expenses
$59,475
Assets
$26,491
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD V WAPPEL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • RICHARD V WAPPEL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
  • SCOTT COUGHLIN (DIRECTOR)
  • KIRK DUNAGAN (DIRECTOR)

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

Share the good news of the gospel of jesus christ to the incarcerated and homeless.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducting worship services, distributing bibles, and ministering to those incarcerated in federal and Arizona city, county, state, and juvenile systems. Meeting with family members to counsel and encourage them in their faith walk as well.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 59

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -49.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 59.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.