Justice Together

Legal name: Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932651999
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Wichita, KS, United States
Phone
316.469.5053
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$270,321
Expenses
$275,037
Assets
$99,826
Liabilities
$5,645

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

Leadership & pay

52 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rev Dr Kevass Harding (Co-President)
  • Rabbi Andrew Pepperstone (Co-President)
  • Rev Dr Pamela Hughes (Vice President)
  • Rev Andrew Beers (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Louis Goseland (Executive Dir.): $95,638 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build a voice of the people so large that it cannot be ignored, and to mobilize that voice for doing justice in Sedgwick County. Our PURPOSE: to advocate for changes that address the root causes of our community’s most pressing problems. The Reverend Andrew O’Connor is Executive Officer for Mission & Ministry at Saint Francis Ministries. In his senior leadership role, Fr. Andrew stewards the spiritual dimensions of a faith-based child and family services nonprofit rooted in the Episcopal tradition. He provides a pastoral presence on the executive leadership team and across the organization’s six-state footprint; is building relationships throughout the Episcopal Church and other denominations, and is developing new opportunities for collaboration with SFM that helps people put faith into action. At-Large Officer Rev. Dr. Karen Robu.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc is composed of religious institutions from different racial and socio-economic backgrounds. 4 additional religious institutions joined the organization as members during 2024, resulting in 40 total religious institution members. Membership is open to any religious institution or human services organization in Sedgwick County, Kansas, provided that the institution is not political in nature. Member congregations pay a contribution that is feasible to their budget, and in turn, receive support from Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc in engaging their congregants in justice ministry as part of their congregational life. During 2024, Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc trained more than 70 people of faith in organizing 412 of their fellow worshippers to play a meaningful role in answering the biblical call to "do justice" (Micah 6:8).Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc engaged more than 200 people in a months-long grassroots research effort that connected them to more than 28 local, regional, and national stakeholders on the topics of mental health and homelessness. The organization then held its Annual Nehemiah Assembly, where more than 1,400 people of faith were mobilized to a mass meeting where the well-researched and community-driven proposals on homelessness and mental health were presented to local officials. Sedgwick County Multifaith Justice Organization Inc's work to build relationships and public accountability with local officials brought about implementation of their proposals to expand and fund a program that provides transportation assistance and peer support to people in outpatient recovery programs, as well as full staffing for county-wide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year mobile mental health crisis units. The organization also secured commitments to implement a low-barrier and low-cost municipal ID program and secure public funding for homelessness programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 73
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 98.1%; rating input score 98; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 92.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 51 of 52 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $218K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 52 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.