Onward Christian Education Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833270682
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Benton, LA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$54,851
Assets
$5,797

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gevan Spinney (Board President)
  • Katie Walker (Board Vice President)
  • Kelly L Johnson (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Gevan Spinney (Board President)
  • Katie Walker (Board Vice President)
  • Christopher Victory (Board Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Onward Christian Education Services Inc. is a Christian parachurch ministry operated for the purposes of helping to educate equip and empower Christians to follow the Biblical commands to understand and meet the challenges of our day and strive to directly impact our communities our nation and the world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Onward Christian Education Services Inc. continues in its parachurch mission to help educate equip and empower believers to understand and live out their biblical faith authentically and to engage the culture. In 2024 the organization transitioned from its primary program of live-format seminar presentations for host churches and large congregations to a greater emphasis on outreach and ministry to key groups of persons. This work was done in two main geographic regions in North Louisiana and in the nations capital in Washington D.C. and involved a range of activities from biblical counseling and ministry to womens groups to hosting large and small events educational programming and spiritual heritage tours of the U.S. Capitol. The organizations structure remains simple and efficient and avoids most of the overhead costs typically associated with other non-profit organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 3

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.