Saving Susan Ministry Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473041699
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Kennesaw, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7704231096
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $718,539
- Expenses
- $653,093
- Assets
- $482,572
- Liabilities
- $27,347
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Adam Reiley (Secretary): $78,203 total reported compensation
- Tracy Arntzen (PresidentCEO): $24,019 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Connecting Children in need with loving parent partners; one child, one step at a time. Saving Susan Ministry is a Christ Centered, Non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the effects of orphan abandonment.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Organization provided donations to Pastor Sihok of Liberty Bible Baptist Church. He is a missionary in Cambodia. His ministry serves the community in areas such as providing assistance to people who make a living by searching a dumpsite and providing sports instruction and mentoring to children and orphans. Additionally, Pastor Sihoks ministry provides housing for orphans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 44% for direct work, and 56% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.1%; rating input score 96; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $444K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.