Sow the Love Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263254664
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4694739791
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,594
- Expenses
- $120,138
- Assets
- $8,327
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Schmidt (President)
- Holly Schmidt (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Thomas Schmidt (President)
- Holly Schmidt (Vice President)
- Andrea Cooper (Secretary)
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
Religious Services that are Christian based and influenced in three major areas of evangelism, instruction, and mercy ministries. Evangelism is traditional proclamation and written communication of the Gospel of Jesus. Instruction is the impartation of both sacred and secular information to those who want more knowledge in either the Christian faith or another area of life. Mercy Ministries, is a broad range of services or events that are done for no cost to the recipient.
What it reported doing in 2024
In the course of calendar year 2024 Sow the Love Ministries (STLM) brought either evangelism, instruction, or mercy ministries (or a combination of the three) to various location in the US, Panama. The main focus of the religious services were provided in the Nueces County area- Corpus Christi TX and Port Aransas. STLM partnered with and engaged through YWAM Ships of Corpus Christi and local churches to provide ministerial services of prayer ministry, instruction, group leadership, public proclamation or street evangelism as well as pulpit ministry at a church in Port Aransas TX. through these efforts the number of people impacted is estimated to be around 825 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -28.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -40.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -122.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.