Muncie Mission Ministries
Legal name: Muncie Mission Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 350869061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Muncie, IN, United States
- Phone
- (765) 288-9122
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,143,323
- Expenses
- $3,989,310
- Assets
- $8,127,173
- Liabilities
- $270,215
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANK F BALDWIN (PRESIDENT/CE)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANK F BALDWIN (PRESIDENT/CE): $123,172 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Restoring Hope & Dignity to People in Crisis. Local used car dealership, Oak Motors, recently announced their commitment to serve as our 20th event season matching partner. They have agreed to support the Mission’s efforts by matching… Dr. Kevin Luksus Receives V! VA Award General. Earlier this year several graduates of the Muncie Mission recovery program joined me on a weekend backpacking trip into one of Indiana’s State Parks. With backpacks strapped on, freeze-dried food packed away and a tarp for shelter, we hit the trail with a sense of adventure. After several miles of hiking, we approached a fork in the trail. Being unsure which path led to our destination, several hikers consulted a map to identify our position. One said, “Let’s find the trailhead and trace it to the fork.” Another was already tracing backward from our planned destination and learned there were other forks...
What it reported doing in 2025
748 families served in family services, 34,517 food items give, 3,132 articles of clothing given, 6,751 hygiene items; 8,206.25 utilities assistance other items provided included appliances, furniture, baby layettes, school supplies, holiday baskets, and holiday gifts to needy families with children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 3.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.