Planting The Gospel Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452020370
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Cumming, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6784691274
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $247,698
- Expenses
- $208,931
- Assets
- $135,046
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Jeff Gravitt (Board Member): $143,683 total reported compensation
- David Putman (Director): $26,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Planting the Gospel exists to work with individuals and churches to equip people to make disciples and plant churches.
What it reported doing in 2024
Planting the Gospel exists to work with individuals, churches and other non-profits to equip people to make disciples and plant churches. Over the past year we have worked diligently on a number of initiatives: 1) Continue to raise financial partners and provide reports and accountability of progress in our mission. 2) Developed a new journal resource called The Great 8 Journal to be used to equip business leaders in applying Jesus style disciple-making in their business relationships3) We have worked alongside several non-profit organizations to leverage our disciple making resources nationally. These organizations include Auxano, Exponential, and FCA. 4) We have continued to develop an online platform for equipping churches and leaders nationally through www.plantingthegospel.com. 5) We have worked with a number of churches throughout the US to equip them for carrying out the mission of disciple making and church planting. 6) We leveraged a number of conferences and speaking opportunities to provide free disciple-making resources. 7) We developed a new resource in collaboration with Multiply.com, Multipliers Pathway, to help churches in the US succeed at their mission of making disciples and planting churches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 46
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $157K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.