Unstuck Ministries (Formerly The Life of a Single Mom)
Legal name: Unstuck Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453478448
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- +12253418055
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Parent Agencies
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $989,560
- Expenses
- $1,055,709
- Assets
- $295,809
- Liabilities
- $99,376
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANIE MONTELARO (PRESIDENT)
- SANDY WHITEHEAD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER MAGGIO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER MAGGIO (CEO): $107,041 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Unstuck Ministries (formerly The Life of a Single Mom) exists to see bound women become free—free to parent well, free to manage their money effectively, and free in their spiritual and mental health. __**The Life of a Single Mom** is a national, faith-based, nonprofit that exists to see that no single mom walks alone. To date, the organization has worked with hundreds of churches to start a single mom’s support group in cities throughout the U.S. and beyond, as well as having served hundreds of thousands of single mothers with a variety of programs. Offering a large array of books, curriculum, training materials, online instructional videos, podcasts, newsletters, life skills education, and more, TLSM is one of the largest single mom organizations in the U.S. The robust selection of single mom programs focus on empowering single moms to grow spiritually, emotionally, financially...
What it reported doing in 2025
Single moms across america program currently has 2,155 single parent support groups within the us. Encompassing 44,431 single mothers in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.6%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $350.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.6% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $956K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.