Poimen Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262835341
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Dimas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8013769467
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $303,501
- Expenses
- $289,470
- Assets
- $47,357
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM HOLDRIDGE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM HOLDRIDGE (PRESIDENT): $61,118 total reported compensation
- SHEILA SCROGGINS (TREASURER): $3,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Poimen ministries is a team of pastoral couples that serve our ministry with the goal of "strengthening pastors to strengthen churches". We provide pastor-to-pastor training, counseling, mentoring, and coaching either in person, by telephone, or in zoom sessions. The poimen ministries pastors are missionarieis that raise their own financial support. Poimen ministries does not charge for their services, but when asked, they provide recommendations regarding honoraria and travel expense reimbursements. Poimen ministries serves senior pastors(and thereby, their churches), in one or more of the following ways: church assessments: a comprehensive evaluation of a church's ministry. Observation sessions include attending board and elder meetings, sunday and mid-week services to evaluate a church's leadership team and to give perspective on their procedures and policies. This can also include reviewing bylaws. On-site transitional senior pastor: a poimen pastor acts as the experieinced, interim
What it reported doing in 2024
See mission statement on schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 83% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 48
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $86.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 4.6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $263K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.