Orchard Ministry Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474320564
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Barrington, IL, United States
- Phone
- 847.852.2203
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $313,645
- Expenses
- $372,422
- Assets
- $241,559
- Liabilities
- $1,250
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- HOLLY SCHAMBACH (DIRECTOR): $125,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Orchard Ministry Development (OMD) exists to cultivate long-term funding for The Orchard church and Open the Bible ministry by inspiring and educating existing and potential donors in current impact and legacy giving. Our Vision We hope to see givers find joy and excellence in their stewardship and generosity. This will also result in long-term, sustainable support for the gospel to continue to go forward here and far. We have assisted many families and individuals have major lifetime and permanent impact on The Orchard Church and _Open the Bible_. We hope to see givers find joy and excellence in their stewardship and generosity. Want to Learn More?
What it reported doing in 2025
Orchard ministry development (omd) educates donors about wise strategies in giving planned gifts. These strategies include gifts through wills and trusts, and gifts of non-cash items such as stock or through ira rmds. It delivers this education by holding 5 to 6 events per year, omd also mails and emails educational information on how to give charitable gifts through these means. Finally omd representatives speak at donor events, to non-profit ministries of the orchard, and to individuals regarding these gifting strategies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $329K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.