M28 Ministry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275350538
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Camp Hill, PA, US
- Phone
- (717) 610-4645
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $300,199
- Expenses
- $219,344
- Assets
- $190,028
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN FREEMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES E SCHAMBACH III (EXECUTIVE DI): $64,900 total reported compensation
- JAMES E SCHAMBACH JR (DIRECTOR EME): $20,270 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER DIAZ (ADMIN ASSIST): $4,215 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
M28 is dedicated to guiding individuals in recovery toward lasting sobriety by providing authentic community, unwavering support, and practical needs. Jarek and his wife Kaycee became involved with M28 Ministry two years ago, helping with Open Tables as part of the Assisi Program, and attending Sunday services. The organization’s unique mission and devotion to the community it serves is what really attracted them to M28. Jarek and Kaycee live in central Pennsylvania with their daughter Laurel. They look forward to future work advancing M28’s life changing mission. Michael Rascoe, Board Member. Jim Schambach founded M28 Ministry in 2011 after he left his position as Executive Pastor at a megachurch in central Pennsylvania. He started M28 to inspire a movement of churches, non-profits, and local agencies to help those struggling to find their way in life. Since its inception, M28 has...
What it reported doing in 2025
Encouraging life transformation in lives of lost and desperate people
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 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $219K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.