Sacred Grounds Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920174863
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,122
- Expenses
- $51,177
- Assets
- $23,503
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support and dispatch christian evangelists to villages in Alaska and other nations. The ministry will promote and encourage christian standards of personal excellence through music, teaching, preaching and planting christian fellowship.
What it reported doing in 2012
Broadcast biweekly ministry over radio; performed evangelist services in villages along the yukon river and on the interior road system, including at large native alaskan gatherings such as the Alaska federation of natives convention, the fur rondy, and the midnight sun intertribal celebration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
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: 8.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2011 to 2012
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.