Transforming Jail Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260727601
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Covington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5137949999
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,862
- Expenses
- $150,671
- Assets
- $125,342
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shawn Wuske (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Shawn Wuske (Executive Director)
- Mr Tom Vinegar (Board Secretary/Chaplain)
- Mr Dave Pommert (Board Treasurer/Chaplain)
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 take Gods message of hope to those in jail.
What it reported doing in 2025
TJM services requests from the Sheriff, her staff & inmates for face-to-face, in-jailvisits i.e. family member death notifications, crisis intervention & requests. ReentryDiscipleship Team provides mentoring & assists with resources upon inmates release.
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 94% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $148K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.