Mecklenburg Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
561583407
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Interfaith

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,237
Expenses
$138,971
Assets
$59,729
Liabilities
$4,458

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sonja Lee (Vice-President)
  • Adrian Bird (President)
  • Rev LeDayne McLeese Polaski (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kristen Anderson (Director)
  • Rabbi Asher Knight (Director)
  • Sonja Lee (Vice-President)

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

Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network MeckMIN promotes interfaith collaboration to foster understanding compassion and justice. We envision a community that lives by the highest values and core virtues of its rich faith traditions and respects the dignity of every person.

What it reported doing in 2024

Potlucks for Pluralism is a community-based interfaith program designed to foster relationship-building and dialogue across diverse faith traditions through shared meals and facilitated conversation. The program draws students from four area universities: Johnson C. Smith University Davidson College Queens University of Charlotte and UNC Charlotte creating spaces where participants gather to share food personal experiences and perspectives in a spirit of mutual respect and learning. Each gathering includes a topic a presentation or speaker guided discussion designed to increase religious literacy reduce misunderstanding and encourage meaningful connections among participants from different backgrounds. Funded in part through a pass-through grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation via Johnson C. Smith University.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% 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 revenue 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: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.4%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 13

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: 0.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.4% of revenue deployed · 13.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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 13/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.