Tidewind Ministries
Legal name: Tidewind Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263011935
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Carmel, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3175235272
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,025
- Expenses
- $80,820
- Assets
- $63,310
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Pescio (President/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- John Pescio (President/Executive Director)
- Kevin Wild (Treasurer)
- Jennifer Hanley (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
Tidewind exists to fortify the body of Christ by helping people draw near to Jesus and confidently face obstacles to faith.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community building events (Latter House, Zoom pitch-ins, etc): Various events (online and in person) designed to encourage and equip the Tidewind community for Christian life and service. Approximately 20 people benefited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 54.4%; rating input score 54
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: -10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 60.6% of revenue deployed · 54.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.