True to Life Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270574596
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Lake Jackson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9795299702
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Financial Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $975,824
- Expenses
- $965,990
- Assets
- $1,432,930
- Liabilities
- $35,566
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEREDITH KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MEREDITH KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $97,421 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
True to life ministries brings hope, training, and support to those who are ready to overcome the barriers standing between them and self-sufficiency. Our continuum of services and programs offer practical skills and resources to prepare men, women, and youth to realize their life's greatest potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social enterprise & job training: ttlm operates a social enterprise (a women's boutique and gift shop) that serves as a living classroom for our comprehensive job training program. Young adults employed here gain practical, hands-on experience in retail operations, customer service, merchandising, and workplace professionalism within a high-accountability, high-support environment. The boutique also functions as a workforce training lab for partner organizations, welcoming clients from other agencies for field tripstyle experiential learning. In addition to its training role, the boutique provides professional clothing to women preparing for court appearances, job interviews, or new employment, helping remove barriers to success. Together, these components equip participants with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to transition into gainful employment, pursue education opportunities, and build pathways toward long-term stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 68.1%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $917.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th 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; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 68.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $658K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.