Tear Down the Walls Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770606011
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Phone
3174578974
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$183,240
Expenses
$68,352
Assets
$158,726
Liabilities
$2,265

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brian Walls (President-Founder)

People named in this filing

  • Brian Walls (President-Founder)
  • David Baker (Chief Financial Officer)
  • Tiffany Walls (Services Administrator)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Meeting the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless as well as mentoring youth in the greater Indianapolis area. We are practicing Christian community development in under resourced neighborhoods through housing referrals, urban farming, and community gardens.

What it reported doing in 2024

TDWM hosts multiple programs and service projects in the Indianapolis area. These projects and programs include community outreach, community development, urban farming, Meeting the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless as well as mentoring youth in the greater Indianapolis area. We are practicing Christian community development in under resourced neighborhoods. TDWM serves the homeless multiple times each week through street outreach where we provide meals, clothing, hygiene items, blankets, and water. We provide transportation, case management, referrals to services and emergency shelter referrals.

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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 6
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.9%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 5%; rating input score 5

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: 62.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.9% of revenue deployed · 5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 7/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.