Best Care Ministry
Legal name: The Jakin Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208221853
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Wooster, OH, USA
- Phone
- 330.439.0480
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,489
- Expenses
- $27,413
- Assets
- $10,309
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAN HETTINGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAN HETTINGER (PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN HETTINGER (TREASURER)
- JIM GILBERT (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission is to help people feel god's care and love for them. We do thisby helping people be more aware of the care needs of others and teaching them to more effectively address those needs through practical skills. We do this by producing and providing contect that trains people in the practical caring skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
Materials have been written and posted on blog, in weekly emails and recorded on a podcast (who cares? With dan hettinger). Content has also been delivered in speeches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 73%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.