Rural Church Youth Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912015697
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Auburn, WA, USA
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$130,654
Expenses
$137,281
Assets
$175,353

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Tommy Horton (director)
  • Rev David Ladines (Chairman)
  • Dr Steven Grieme (Vice Chairman)

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

Assist churches in preparing students for a life of service

What it reported doing in 2025

RCYM was able to engage with nearly 80 metropolitan church youth leaders and with over 75 rural pastors and lay youth leaders with its youth mission strategy connecting with these leaders has established many partnerships between city and rural churches thus enhancing both of their youth ministry programs

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -5.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $137K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.