Men of Valor
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621836815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2008–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6153999111
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,590,154
- Expenses
- $7,796,079
- Assets
- $29,036,802
- Liabilities
- $10,838,369
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAUL LOPEZ (FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- RAUL LOPEZ (FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $202,400 total reported compensation
- CURT CAMPBELL (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $168,636 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL CHECK (CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER): $146,413 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Men of valor is a non-profit organization committed to winning men who have experienced incarceration to jesus christ and discipling them. Our purpose is to equip them to re-enter society as men of integrity becoming givers to the community rather than takers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Men of valor is a non-profit organization committed to winning men who have experienced incarceration to jesus christ and discipling them. Our purpose is to equip them to re-enter society as men of integrity becoming givers to the community rather than takers. In 2025, we served 3,711 men through our prison & jail programs, 253 men in re-entry housing, and 79 children and 40 caregivers through our family ministry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $202K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 17 filing years from 2008 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.