Mount Carmel Ministries
Legal name: Mount Carmel Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411577937
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, MN, USA
- Phone
- (320) 846-2744
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,382,213
- Expenses
- $1,351,381
- Assets
- $6,748,970
- Liabilities
- $118,768
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - RETIRED)
- DAVID BLACKSTAD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TIM PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - RETIRED): $29,785 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mount Carmel Ministries is a place of rest, renewal, and recreation where people experience Jesus. We invite congregations to partner with Mount Carmel as a Proclaimer Congregation!** Proclaimer Congregations are congregations who have agreed by an official action to prayerfully and financially support Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel also offers congregations an opportunity to strengthen their ministry with solid Biblical teaching in a beautiful retreat setting. We have a series of retreats that teach the entire Bible. Each retreat will focus on renewal, awakening faith, fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ, and enjoying God's creation. More on Congregational Partnership →.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bible camp ministry - our camp provides biblical education programs, worship, and christian fellowship for adults and families. We also provide a place for christian congregations and other christian groups to come and run their own programs.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 2.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.99; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.