Praxis Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465552550
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4806204765
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $786,364
- Expenses
- $708,593
- Assets
- $358,388
- Liabilities
- $9,234
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Raber (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Ryan Arneson (Director): $40,250 total reported compensation
- Vincent Garvey (VP Development): $32,319 total reported compensation
- Jason Raber (President): $17,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Praxis Ministries exists to come alongside those who believe God has called them into a specific part of His work and has brought others into the the fold to engage with your mission and vision. We provide fundraising and ministry coaching and tools so Gods people can partner together in pursuing their God-given mission around the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Assisted churches individuals and non-profits with evangelism discipleship and community service efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $207.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th 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: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 13th 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $618K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.