Lutheran Transitional Ministry Associati
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411785126
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Carlisle, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175791875
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,347
- Expenses
- $69,626
- Assets
- $60,382
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV LOIS VAN ORDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 1/1-6/30/TREASUR)
- REV JOHN MICHAEL RAMEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7/1-12/31)
People named in this filing
- REV MARK WILKENS (CHAIR)
- REV DARRELL ZIMMERMAN (SECRETARY)
- REV LANNY WESTPHAL (MEMBER)
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
Basic & advanced training and ongoing certification.
What it reported doing in 2024
Oct 2023 basic training in transitions phase 1: 16 participants plus 1 audit participant; 12, 90 min weekly virtual sessions that continued into january 2024. Faculty stipends were paid upon training completion in 2024; included in line 29aoct 2024 basic training in transitionsphase 1: 12 participants plus 3 audit participants.12, 90 minutes weekly virtual sessions that continued into february 2025.faculty stipends were paid upon training completion in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 43.6%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -60.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 43.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.