New Ground Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922558500
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lockhart, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7374029798
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,611
- Expenses
- $76,451
- Assets
- $18,984
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kyle Hope (Director and Pastoral Counselor)
- Matthew Erickson (Board Member)
- Antonio Ximenez (Board Member)
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
Said corporation is organized exclusively for religious purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. These purposes include but are not limited to preaching and teaching the doctrine of the Bible, training and counseling people, performing Christian worship and music, providing charitable assistance, and evangelizing the world by participation in domestic and foreign missions.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we directly provided formal religious services to over 100 people. This included weekly fellowship opportunities for a recurring group of 42 adults and children. We trained 10 ministry leaders in effective, solution-focused, and biblical counseling from four local congregations. This counseling training is a certified program through Hope for the Heart and Plano, TX-based counseling ministry, which reaches hundreds of thousands of Christians through its programs. These trainings provided through New Ground Ministries equipped local leaders to better meet the needs of their congregants and local community members. We also provide support to leaders as they deal with people in crises and bear the heaviness of a life of full-time ministry. Through these trainings, we have indirectly ministered to over 200 people. We also provided one-on-one Christian counseling and discipleship services to 45 individuals, couples, and families. These accomplishments do not include the informal reach we maintain in our community when we connect with local community members through coffee shops and local events to share the joy and love of Jesus.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.3%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 8
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: 20%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.3% of revenue deployed · 7.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.