Salem Area Ecumenical Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461012344
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Salem, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403871015
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,913
- Expenses
- $102,200
- Assets
- $232,564
- Liabilities
- $1,556
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Neathawk (Chairman of the Board)
- Artice Ledbetter (VP)
- Trula Byington (VP)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide Food/Clothing to the underserved
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide food clothing and supplies for the school children and underserved in the community
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.8%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.8% of revenue deployed · 25.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.