Merci
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473828709
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Memphis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5023870645
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,402
- Expenses
- $77,241
- Assets
- $466,036
- Liabilities
- $634
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ryan Naville (President)
People named in this filing
- Ryan Naville (President)
- Robert Esham (Chairman)
- Stan Wheeler (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
Marriage enrichment workshops & mentoring. Marriage education resource center Indiana (MERCI) has ongoing marriage enrichment studies, workshops and mentoring programs that will encourage husbands and wives to maintain a loving and respectful relationship.
What it reported doing in 2025
Marriage enrichment workshops and mentoring
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 comfortably covers expenses. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.8%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.03; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.8% of revenue deployed · 12.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.