Nik Ripken Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 467053697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Irving, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9042268094
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $203,890
- Expenses
- $253,309
- Assets
- $211,961
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kenneth Perkins (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kenneth Perkins (President): $32,400 total reported compensation
- Beth Perkins (CFO): $30,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nik Ripken Ministries trains and teaches workers, churches, and believers about the persecution of Christians globally.
What it reported doing in 2024
Development of film and book teching Christians about global persecution.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.8%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 8
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.8% of revenue deployed · 8.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.