Psalm 891 Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993714927
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5127996179
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,711
- Expenses
- $140,016
- Assets
- $205,314
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY GAERTNER (PRESIDENT)
- ELLEN TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLEN TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $93,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of psalm 89:1 ministries is to grow women of all ages in their faith through mutigenerational discipleship. Our hope is that through this mutigenerational discipleship, women would be encouraged and equipped no matter where they are in their faith journey and as a result they would both walk more in the fullness of who god created them to be and then multiply and do the same for others.
What it reported doing in 2025
The goal in walking out this mission is three-fold: 1) for the people we disciple to encounter and experience the lord in the ways pauls prayer in ephesians 1: 17-19 talks about: that the god of our lord jesus christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in christ when raised him from the dead and eated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.; 2) to have those we disciple then multiply and use this same mission and model of discipleship with others multi generationally; and 3) to encourage and equip other women in ministry through partnering with them through the gift of a grant. This mission is accomplished through one on one discipleship, small groups, fostering community through fellowshipping around the dinner table, mission trips, retreats, prayer nights, serving together and multi generational gatherings.
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 83% 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.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 62.4%; rating input score 62; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 66.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 128.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -61% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.