Puget Sound Strategic Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912000460
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Phone
- 253-922-5369
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,991
- Expenses
- $178,690
- Assets
- $165,554
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEVON TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL PACE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEVON TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL PACE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KENNY KURTZ (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teaching and Training Youth with Biblical Truth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support 2 missionaries in Washington, Idaho, Oregon andalaska who participate in the activities of thisorganization to reach youth for christ with the gospel and train them in good citizenship. Contact with youth, assist in reference checking at the local church level in the four states. Sponsored camps. Additional training was provided to assist the volunteers to develop their christian values by which they conveyed christ-like values to the youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $177K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.