Truly Fed Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454829307
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Katy, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3037255995
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,124,713
- Expenses
- $1,001,566
- Assets
- $461,972
- Liabilities
- $1,614
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILL TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- GAR1 MEACHAM (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILL TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,000 total reported compensation
- GAR1 MEACHAM (CEO): $15,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate audiences both locally and abroad on biblical principles and authentic faith, while also impacting the rural villages of kamuli, uganda, by providing education, orphan care, spiritual discipleship, amd empowerment for women and children.
What it reported doing in 2025
TFM maintained all on-going programs at The Vine Uganda including the baby cottage for abandoned children, village projects benefitting women, educational support for school-aged children, outreaches targeting medical care and help. In addition, The Vine Ugandas Primary School received its first students and construction continued on staff housing, future classrooms and a playing field.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 79.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $794K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesOther column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.