On Wings Like A Dove
Legal name: On Wings Like a Dove Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113795394
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Winston Salem, NC, United States
- Phone
- (336) 829-5060
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,022
- Expenses
- $191,020
- Assets
- $133,564
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sandra Kearns (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sandra Kearns (Executive Director)
- Barbara Boney (Board Member and Inmate Bible Study Director)
- Debbie Hampton (Board Member and Bible Program Coordinator)
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
On Wings Like A Dove is a Christ-centered ministry for the loved ones of prodigals and prisoners. We provide tools and resources to encourage families, prodigals, and prisoners to walk in the light and not the darkness. On Wings Like A Dove is a Christ-centered ministry** to prodigals, prisoners, and their families, providing tools and resources to encourage the troubled to walk in the light and not the darkness. -We stay in contact with families of prodigals** through bi-weekly Prayer and Support Group meetings for Families, weekly Prayer and Bible Study meetings for Ladies, and annual Ladies Retreats for moms of prodigals to spend time away in fellowship, prayer, Bible study, and worship. We also stay connected via our monthly Family Newsletter, available either through the mail or by email. -We connect with inmates** who write to us and/or subscribe to our monthly Inmate...
What it reported doing in 2025
Other ministry services including the following activities: - Treasure box ministry that built and delivered over 150 treasure boxes to youth - Backpack school supply ministry to an underserved local community of over 180 distributed- Compassion gifts to families affected by prodigal children for basic necessities - Other general ministry efforts to families of prodigals.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 60.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.