Reasonable Faith
Legal name: Reasonable Faith Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203021684
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2013
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4048084686
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $674,839
- Expenses
- $580,588
- Assets
- $766,924
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LEE KOZ (ED): $84,000 total reported compensation
- BEAU BISHOP (Director): $13,750 total reported compensation
- DAVIS CABLE (Treasurer): $5,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reasonable Faith aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today. Our Mission Reasonable Faith aims to provide an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the... Reasonable Faith aims to provide an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the... View Mission. 256 Chapters Worldwide With 150 chapters in the U.S. and 83 internationally, our RF Chapters are face-to-face, boots-on-the-ground relationships with people. Our chapters provide a local community of like-minded individuals to discuss doctrine and apologetics while also reaching out to unbelieving friends. Prefer to donate by mail?
What it reported doing in 2013
Speaking engagements, public debates and the reasonable faith website support the mission of the organization to provide an articulate, intelligent voice for christianity in the public arena to challenge unbelievers with the truth of christianity.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $540K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.