Timberlake Ministries
Legal name: Timberlake Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753071997
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Millport, AL, United States
- Phone
- 205.662.8798
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $771,387
- Expenses
- $670,105
- Assets
- $1,862,645
- Liabilities
- $454,834
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREMY BURNS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN BURNS (SECRETARY): $55,385 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Timberlake Ministries exists to provide a high quality, Christ-centered, family friendly campground and retreat center in which guests can enjoy the beauty of God’s creation in an environment that will strengthen relationships within their groups as well as with God. The Board of Directors is comprised of dedicated members of the community who share and support the mission of Timberlake. The Board has the responsibility of ensuring that the policies, activities and plans for Timberlake support its mission by providing spiritual, technical and financial guidance to the directors. Timberlake Employees All employees and volunteers of Timberlake Ministries are expected to embrace and support the mission and values of the ministry through an example of Christian love and behavior. All employees are expected to be a role-model of a follower of Jesus Christ at all times.
What it reported doing in 2024
To develop and operate a religious retreat facility that is available for various organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.78; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $570K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.