Ting Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462876701
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Lebanon, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7173769420
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,100
- Expenses
- $195,087
- Assets
- $37,216
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- BRIAN CARPENTER (PRESIDENTEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHANIE CARPENTER (VP - TREASURER)
- NATALYA CARPENTER (Social Med Mgr)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing aid to aging out and special-needs orphans and supports adoptive families around the world
What it reported doing in 2024
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides aid to aging out and special-needs orphans and supports adoptive families around the world. Ting Ministries - LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART - Be A Voice for the Voiceless. We are a ministry focused on orphan care and adoption-related counseling. Advocating for orphans in Bulgaria, China and BurkinaIaso. Working in two orphanages in Bulgaria - Plenem, Stara Zagora. Working with street children in Marawi, Philippines. Beginning work with orphans in Bangledesh and reaching unreached people groups with the Gospel and supplies to live. During 2017 began working with orphans and aged out orphans in a new region in Ukraine - Zhitomir, Ukraine; including growing ministry and orphan work in all regions and countries previously working in past year. Ting Ministries is working to build a home for children in the Philippines and a home to use as a ministry base in Romania During the year 2021 Tin Tin Houses built in Pakistan and the Philippines to house, acare for , educate orphans and vulnerable children. Additional building and renovations to add third floor to the Tin Tin House in order to accomidate more children with safe housing and education; also remodeling the House of Salvation in Romania and add fencing. Pakistan expansion for Brick Kiln laborers and trafficking victims. To work a new region of Pakistan and share ministry with the children in the USA in order to free slave laborers, provide families with new housing and sustanable work and free those trapped in trafficking. To house, care for, educate orphans and vunurable children. Medical clinics and Sunday school to provide medical and spiritual care in brick kilns and prayer meetings. Food outreach to provide access to nutritious food to familes in Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia Village accessability to work with village families in Russia, Ukraine and Romania. Tin Tin Feeding program - Housing churches have grown out of the Tin Tin Ministry of Ting Ministries in the Southern Philippines. Many areas where children have been fed through the program have house churches beginning and tiny structures being built as a house and central feeding location. Additional feeding outreaches transporting supplies and the teams to various islands for the Tin Tin Feeding program to care for emotional, spiritual, physical, and educational and food needs of orphans and vunerable children i the Philipines. The Tin Tin feeding program has expenaded to include Pakistan and Indonesia where regular feeding of many hungry souls takes place weekly and monthly depending upon funding.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.