The Keys Are at the Cross Prison Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043621777
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Raytown, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165064493
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,770
- Expenses
- $52,811
- Assets
- $10,483
- Liabilities
- $971
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CORNELIUS CAREY SR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICKEY L PETERS (DIRECTOR)
- LONNY R PURTLE (DIRECTOR)
- CORNELIUS CAREY SR (PRESIDENT)
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
To reach out to individuals and their families who are under the supervision of the prison and jail systems by, 1) proclaiming the truth of jesus christ, 2) providing in-depth bible teaching and christian discipleship, and 3) training those who want to share their faith with others.
What it reported doing in 2025
The keys primarily operates in four prisons. Ten chapel services per month were conducted serving hundreds of men and women. In the diagnostic and administrative segregation units of the Missouri western reception diagnostic correctional center (wrdcc), we met weekley with individuals who were on continual lockdown and we also provided weekly christian discipleship classes. Reverend purtle and ron green met weekly with individuals in the reentry center of the Kansas city community release center. Reverend purtle also served as the wrdcc substitute chaplain when the staff chaplain was away on other business.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.