Rural America Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471618171
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Helena, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062290144
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,985
- Expenses
- $19,256
- Assets
- $98,723
- Liabilities
- $2,814
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rich Greenwald (President)
People named in this filing
- Rich Greenwald (President)
- Wes Bartel (Secretary)
- Dave Philips (Board)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A network to increase performance of rural churches through education and events
What it reported doing in 2025
Church facilities Projects: Our volunteers around the country were involved in improving the facilities of 12 churches and one daycare center throughout the US by providing materials, volunteers and labor with minor and major projects in rural communities. Community Outreach: Our Network volunteers were involved in coordinating with local churches for community outreach events in at least 7 churches Helping churches in pastoral transition: 2 of our team members served in interim roles and across our network we assisted 8 churches in pastoral transition Special Events: We provided one marriage retreat for rural pastors We created one youth event for churches churches in KY All together we were able to serve hundreds of people in our events and ongoing work with rural churches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.6%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 67.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.13; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.6% of revenue deployed · 17.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.