Straight Path Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994654891
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 4072716290
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,874
- Expenses
- $113,185
- Assets
- $8,447
- Liabilities
- $1,130
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Joseph Cashen (President)
People named in this filing
- Christopher Joseph Cashen (President)
- Kathryn Cashen (Secretary)
- Colin McCann (Treasurer)
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
To reach the unreached with the gospel of Jesus Christ by sharing the message of hope and salvation worldwide Straight Path Ministries focuses heavily on reaching people who have limited or no ability to hear the gospel in their city Straight Path Ministries reaches people through school programs mass open-air events and remote village outreaches maintaining a primary presence in Asia and Africa A core aspect of the ministry is partnering with and equipping existing local churches through intensive evangelism trainings and church planting initiatives By providing indigenous practical training the organization empowers local believers to multiply disciples and fulfill the Great Commission in their own communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Organized and executed eight intensive two-week youth crusades across Thailand as part of the EveryONE initiative We mobilized over 100 evangelists from around the world to reach local youth By partnering with local ministries this massive evangelistic effort successfully reached over 250000 individuals with face-to-face gospel presentations These outreaches significantly impacted communities by providing moral guidance to youth fostering spiritual awakening and actively supporting regional church networks in expanding their local outreach capacities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.5%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 24
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: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.5% of revenue deployed · 23.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.