Mid-city Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263476248
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
New Orleans, LA, USA
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,976
Expenses
$57,877
Assets
$104,607

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robert Carpenter (President Board of Directors)
  • Perry Rogers (Vice-President Board of Directors)
  • Jenny Lee Garrison (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Carpenter (President Board of Directors)
  • Sheila Lundy (Secretary Board of Directors)
  • Perry Rogers (Vice-President Board of Directors)

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

Providing Education and Support to children and families

What it reported doing in 2025

Kid-City Program: Serving 30 students during the academic year it is a three-tiered tutoring and enrichment activity program. It includes 1 tutoring small group sessions 2 Possibilities Project targeted at teens provides field trips guest speakers mentoring opportunities team building leadership training service projects work readiness skills and career exploration and 3 Leadership Development sessions primarily preparing our teens to lead at our summer camp but also working on job skills interview techniques conflict resolution and other needed skills. Children who have participated in our programming that we have been able to track have over a 95% graduation rate far exceeding local state and national averages. Additionally our graduates enrolling in community colleges needing remedial or corequisite classes is less than 20% which is stronger than the state average. This number is an estimate; Louisiana recently restructured from remedial to corequisite model

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 97% 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 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: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.1%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 53.2%; rating input score 53

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.1% of revenue deployed · 53.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.