Strong Tower Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431666053
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wright City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144522853
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $286,239
- Expenses
- $282,931
- Assets
- $374,152
- Liabilities
- $228,036
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARK BROOKS (CHAIRMAN)
- JEREMY BLAINE (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- MARK BASS (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To organize, conduct and maintain a ranch for the development of character and to improve the spiritual, mental, vocational, recreational, social physical condition of boys girls. To manage and operate the ranch and its activities for the purpose of diffusing a general knowledge of the Bible and its teaching through lectures, activities fellowship.
What it reported doing in 2024
Strong Tower Ranch provides free year-around horse programs and summer day camps for children who have challenging life circumstances. Strong Tower Ranch also provides day camp programs to paid campers. Together they served 407 children in 2024.. The Day Camps mission is to provide a high quality, Christ-centered day camp experience for children and youth aged 8-14. They strive to have activities that are both entertaining and character building. Activities include but are not limited to swimming, boating, horseback riding, games, creation classes, singing, Bible lessons, crafts, archery, outdoor cooking, obstable course, hay rides, hiking and fishing. The Horsemanship Camps give the solid foundation it takes to be a skilled, safe rider, while building a relationship of trust and respect with the horse. Those same attributes are carried over in the daily devotional as they learn more about how they can strengthen their relationship with Jesus. Camp times are from 9am-4pm Monday through Thursday and 9am-5pm on Friday during the summer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 54.1%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 54.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.