Mirror Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472596483
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Richland, WA, USA
Phone
5097835730
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,587,175
Expenses
$1,819,211
Assets
$4,759,247
Liabilities
$1,719,359

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Elizabeth Guy (Vice President)
  • Michael Nellis (President)
  • Clay Fox (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Patricia MacFarlan (Executive Dir.): $69,581 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mirror Ministries provides local education and awareness of sex trafficking in our community. We operate a 24/7 local sex trafficking hotline with local advocates responding to the calls. The advocates do intensive case management and invite the survivors into our Mirror Ministries Outreach Center for therapeutic services, life skills, mentoring, and survivor support groups. Esther's Home is a restoration home for minor girls who have been victims of sex trafficking.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mirror Ministries Survivor Services coordinates a continuum of care for local victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation sex trafficking. Our Advocates will walk alongside each victim as they work towards their healing. Advocates will help each survivor identify their goals and the steps to achieve those goals, as they walk alongside them on their healing journey. We have a 24/7 local sex-trafficking hotline answered by trained advocates who can respond as needed. Our Mirror Ministries Outreach Center provides counseling and therapeutic survivor support groups, including art therapy, music therapy, movement therapy, equine therapy, baking, and self-defense. We also assist with school, employment, housing, and other essential life skills. . 170 more local victims of sex trafficking found freedom and hope in 2025 through Mirror Ministries.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 93
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 67.2%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.62; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 67.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.