The Hardy Group Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264073797
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,528
- Expenses
- $108,403
- Assets
- $3,549
- Liabilities
- $46,200
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- RICHARD HARDY (DIRECTOR)
- JONATHAN HARDY (DIRECTOR)
- GERY HAAG (DIRECTOR)
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
Ministry
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing consulting, coaching, resourcing and value-added services to church leaders, pastors, and church boards to help them be more effective in presenting the plan of salvation of jesus christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 20%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.02; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20% of revenue deployed · 20% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.