Strategic Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760528311
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135020797
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,026
- Expenses
- $163,655
- Assets
- $191,536
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PEGGY GERST (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT GERST (VICE PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
People named in this filing
- PEGGY GERST (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT GERST (VICE PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
- LOU HOUSER (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
This ministry exists for the purposes of forming and providing weekly (Christian) Bible teaching classes. We also conduct worship and prayer meetings each week. We meet in the home of one of the Trustees. We are not a church. We provide our services on a non-denominational basis.
What it reported doing in 2025
Benevolence, ministry offerings, tithes
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.