Oak Grove Christian Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300697158
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502691375
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,315,282
- Expenses
- $1,038,788
- Assets
- $974,001
- Liabilities
- $57,163
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carole Klove (President)
People named in this filing
- Carole Klove (President)
- W Morris Chubb (Treasurer)
- Larry Langdon (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support Christ-centered organizations and related Christian activities in the San Francisco Bay Area by providing tax-deductible giving pathways and fiduciary accountability through a governing-board reviewed model. Oak Grove Christian Ministries (OGCM) supports Christ-centered organizations and related Christian activities (“Supported Organizations”) based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provide non-profit services and activities under the Internal Revenue Code and guidelines which are subject to review and acceptance by the governing board of OGCM, to help them flourish both now and in the future by: Providing high fiduciary accountability in a responsible manner and following generally acceptable accounting practices for each Supported Organization managed through competent financial management, including the conferring and reporting to donors the tax-deductible status of all...
What it reported doing in 2024
Support Christ-Centered organizations and related Christian activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.