Prelude Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833481784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Brighton, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123635015
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $254,661
- Expenses
- $239,188
- Assets
- $36,190
- Liabilities
- $390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHIL DOMMER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GRAHAM DOMMER (TREASURER): $43,228 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe that despite the physically limiting conditions of an ailment, especially in the case of dementia, the spirit is still alive and capable of receiving the message and hope of christ. Individuals living in a memory care facility or assisted living community are people who have physical, social, intellectual, and emotional needs. Therefore, the prelude ministries spiritual care program is there to serve these needs through essential avenues and in a manner consistent with the christian faith and with special emphasis on the ministry of presence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Prelude ministries provides spiritual care for people who are physically and mentality limited through weekly worship and hymn singing, weekly teaching sermons, weekly bible studies, daily individual visits, monthly prayer meetings, end of lifecare given through bedside memorials, and other supportive roles such as funerals or celebration of life services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 6.1%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $239K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.