Sideways Sunlight Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873955469
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Athens, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7708256008
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $189,372
- Expenses
- $197,427
- Assets
- $80,220
- Liabilities
- $2,884
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATIE KNOBLAUCH (Executive Dir.)
- LINDSEY BOWEN (Director)
- ROSA VENTRELL (Vice Chairman)
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
To bring spiritual and emotional support to children living in at risk situations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Founded in 2019, Sideways Sunlight Ministries (SSM) mission is to bring spiritual and emotional support to children living in at-risk situations in Athens, Georgia. SSM seeks fun and creative ways to make deep and meaningful connections to the children within the community while teaching the Gospel of Jesus through our (1) Weekly Church Gatherings (2) Mentor ship Program and (3) Community Support. Weekly church gatherings allows children from the Rocksprings community to gather at a local church every Thursday night where each child is served holistically. This approach to caring for the youth looks like tending and focusing on every facet of each child's bing such as the physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs. SSM focuses on providing exceptional Biblical lessons centered on unconditional love, health home-made meals, emotional and mental health tools, and healthy communication. SSM's Mentorship Program focuses on pairing each child with a safe and Jesus loving adult who will guide and support them through the joys and hardships of life. Each month the mentorship program provides monthly outings for the mentor pairings. We support members of the community with severe needs such as homelessness, lack of proper clothing, and food disparity. The goal of community involvement is to serve the physical, financial, and emotional needs of community members.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 68.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.7% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $172K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.