Spark Our Spirit Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331801932
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Dayton, MN, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,102
- Expenses
- $58,853
- Assets
- $22,342
- Liabilities
- $1,436
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vanessta Spark (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Vanessta Spark (Executive Director)
- Terri Anderson (Board Chair)
- Kirsten Spark (Board 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Spark Our Spirit Ministries (SOS Ministries), our mission is to guide individuals toward spiritual and emotional healing, helping them break free from past pain and embrace God's purpose. Through faith-based programs, powerful teachings, and transformative community experiences, we create a sacred space where you can encounter God, rewrite your story, and step into freedom.
What it reported doing in 2025
244 women experienced heart-level healing, connection, and transformation through our program
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 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.9%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.9% of revenue deployed · 22.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.