Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264449380
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145867939
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,651,669
- Expenses
- $1,377,707
- Assets
- $1,142,967
- Liabilities
- $437,912
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KIM EMCH (EXECUTIVE DI): $119,840 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community service mission. The corporation will exist to serve our neighbors in poverty or those in need with christian compassion. It will provide direct services, referral processes, and synergy with other organizations to feed, educate and provide fellowship. The purpose of this assistance is to help families take steps toward spiritual, economic, and social stabilization with the goal of the families attaining self- sufficiency in the community. The corporation will provide education to children, families, adults, and the greater community to learn skills, english or understand poverty. The corporation will also provide access to church programming and prayer to fulfill the spiritual needs of our neighbors. This work is done for social justice purposes by ecumenical volunteers which shows the grace and love of god in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The festa 3-generation family esl program takes place every monday through thursday evening from september-april and welcomes immigrants and refugees of all ages seeking to learn english. Parents can bring their children to festa friends club, which provides programming, academic support, and dinner for children in grades k-8, or to our early childhood classrooms which provide infant care and preschool programming for toddlers. High school students are welcome to join our teen internship program where they assist festa staff in leading activities, providing dinner and academic support. This year, our 3-generation family esl program served families from 59 different countries and served people from infants to grandparents, and everyone in between we welcomed families from 58 different zip codes across central Ohio, as well as a virtual classroom for students without local transportation, or in other parts of the state, to join our program and the welcoming community that exists at festa. During the 2024-2025 school year, we welcomed 690 adults (136 online and 554 in person) with 476 children to total: 1166 people served by this program. Half of our mission is to mobilize the community to serve our neighbors and in this program, we recruited, trained and mobilized 496 volunteers (child and adults) who served 7,773 hours. In addition to the expense reported above, there was 60,648 in donated rent and 60,253 in professional services which were reported in the financial statements as contributions in program expense. For form 990, however, the IRS requires that contributed services and use of facilities be excluded from both revenue and expense.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $963K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.