Missional Chaplains Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472039803
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2693488317
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,940
- Expenses
- $171,366
- Assets
- $39,732
- Liabilities
- $11,165
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYAN BELLWARE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL KEMPLE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- CHRISTOPHER FISH (SECRETARY)
- BRYAN BELLWARE (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Missional chaplains exists to help organizations succeed by strengthening people in wellness, spiritual and emotional health through providing daily, individualized care from trained community chaplains.
What it reported doing in 2025
A national service organization founded in southwest Michigan and now serving in northern Indiana, we have been meeting, training and developing a leadership team from a variety of local fellowships to serve in a variety of different settings, such as: our local gospel mission, the county jail, businesses, non-profit organizations, public safety and government offices, churches, the entertainment industry and schools.
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 96% 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.8%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 55.3%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.8% of revenue deployed · 55.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.