Messed Up Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852816150
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7606081942
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,384
- Expenses
- $11,379
- Assets
- $67,005
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Pippen (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Pippen (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. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In house prisoner education
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 19
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 85.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.89; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 16 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.