Mountain Stream Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621627612
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Jefferson City, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8656549475
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,148
- Expenses
- $66,673
- Assets
- $2,420
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICKEY FULTZ (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICKEY FULTZ (PRESIDENT)
- CHERYL FULTZ (SEC/TREAS)
- KENDRA GIBBS (TRUSTEE)
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
Msm is founded on the principle of serving others serving by: 1. Ministering the gospel of the kingdom of god. 2. Giving to those in need. 3. Speaking prophetically, and publishing the proceeding word of god. 4. Ministering through guidance of the holy spirit who leads us into all truth. 5. Teaching biblical principles on how to obtain understanding, insight, direction, and encouragement through a closer relationship with jesus, our lord and savior. 6. Encouraging everyone to reach for god's promise of living a life more abundantly purpose of mountain stream ministries the purpose of mountain stream ministries is to teach kingdom principles, spiritual order, and to be an ambassador of god, speaking prophetically as he directs, locally and globally. Mountain stream ministies accomplishes this purpose by providing resource materials on the form of newletters, books, media and by teaching through various venues. Primary exempt purpose propagation of the gospel of jesus christ
What it reported doing in 2025
Gatherings/conf "third dimension of god gathering, msm expalined the tabernacle of moses and its meaning. How all three dimensions of the tabernacle correlate with our life today. 3/23/25 "god's divine order gathering" msm held teaching sessions on the importance of god's divine order in our life. 9/8/25 levels & measures gathering msm explained the difference in levels and measurers found in the bible. God's progression in our life is given in measures not levels of anointing and callings upon our life. 11/23/25
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 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 12.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 121.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.