Sandell Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581709608
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Avondale Estates, GA, USA
Phone
4048952898
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$145,200
Expenses
$178,395
Assets
$68,440

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cynthia Finn (President)

People named in this filing

  • Stephen H Saggus (Treasurer)
  • Joel Martinez (Director)
  • Marye Lord (Director)

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

The purpose of Sandell Ministries Inc. (the ministry) is to provide renewal and encouragement for Christian ministers, missionaries, workers and lay people, helping them to experience wholeness and renewal. The ministry's purpose is achieved through preaching, counseling, distribution of financial aid to needy persons, and other means.

What it reported doing in 2024

Program service activities included varous pastoral activites such as counseling and encouragement to various individuals and also distribution of funds to other Christian organizations in support of specified ministry activites conducted by these organizations. It is not feasible to determine the number of persons assisted directly or indirectly through these activities in 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $157K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
  • 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 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.