Sugartree Ministries
Legal name: Sugartree Ministry Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311765725
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wilmington, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9373828359
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $749,066
- Expenses
- $637,472
- Assets
- $993,980
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lee B Sandlin (Executive Director)
- Dave Hinman (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lee B Sandlin (Executive Director): $30,004 total reported compensation
- Sarah Stevenson (Board Member): $12,358 total reported compensation
- Sarah Schaefer (Secretary): $7,050 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sugartree Ministries aims to share the gospel of Jesus Christ (“good news” that Jesus died for our sins) and to serve people described as “the least of these,” including older adults, low-income families, single mothers, those living with mental illness, and those struggling with substance use. We provide a 12-step addiction support group and connect people to professionals. Hot Meals Hot Meals. Emergency Shelter Emergency Shelter We provide emergency shelter for men experiencing homelessness. Emergency Shelter We provide emergency shelter for men experiencing homelessness. Transportation. We provide emergency shelter for men experiencing homelessness. Transportation Transportation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Your Fathers Kitchen: Provides Hot meals and groceries to persons in need. Approximately 14,000 people are served each day of operation and 120 meals are served six days a week. Over 11,000 grocery items are given out on a monthly basis. We also help provide emergency shelter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $5,739.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $588K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 14 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.