Open Word Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465413681
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175493339
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,320
- Expenses
- $137,273
- Assets
- $96,620
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RODGER MARKLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SONDRA SPOTTS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- RODGER MARKLE (PRESIDENT)
- TIM BLOOMQUIST (VICE PRESIDE)
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
Open word ministries is a christ-centered ministry that is focused on teaching and training the saints for the work of the ministry while encouraging believers to recognize and minister out of their giftings.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supported pastors and leaders in the country of kenya; partners with patty's heart children's home in kenya, to provide housing and education for orphaned and abandoned children; training seminars in both the USA and kenya.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
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: 23%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.