Steady Stream Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883776555
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Mobile, AL, USA
- Phone
- 6464911304
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,700
- Expenses
- $56,000
- Assets
- $30,296
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bennett Ward (President)
People named in this filing
- Bennett Ward (President)
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
Steady Stream Ministries serves churches and Christians by producing music, devotional audio and video, and teaching about Christian worship, music, and technical arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have produced a podcast since 2018 that reaches over 10000 people monthly across the world. It is offered free to listeners so economic status is not a hindrance. Prayer submissions include people from the US, Nigeria, England, New Zealand, the Philippines, Turkey, and Singapore.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 100%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -120% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52% per year; rating input score 100; 95th 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 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.