Truth in Nature Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264231073
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Rockmart, GA, USA
Phone
4043744228
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$948,542
Expenses
$1,140,059
Assets
$3,419,436
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CARRIE DAVIS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JEFF DAVIS (EXE DIRECTOR/PRES): $87,850 total reported compensation
  • CARRIE DAVIS (VICE PRESIDENT): $49,084 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Organization purpose and vision-founded in 2009, truth in nature is a Georgia corporation and an authorized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We seek to provide our participants pathways for spiritual growth and maturity through outdoor exploration and activities. We desire to partner with single parents as another healthy influence in the process of raising their sons and young men in their care. Truth in nature promotes christian character, healthy self-esteem, working alongside others, and personal responsibility. We understand that promoting these qualities and behaviors will help deter at-risk conduct. Truth in nature accomplishes our goals through a committed group of volunteer mentors who spend time listening, encouraging and supporting.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mentoring-truth in nature mentors boys from fatherless and single parent homes through our monthly program offerings. Each young man is part of a monthly, overnight, or day only program; where they have mentors present to reach, inspire, support and engage them through their middle and high school years. Truth in nature uses the outdoors and activities such as, camping, hunting fishing, canoeing, archery, etc. As the backdrop for these programs and for them to experience the things that are typically done between fathers and sons done outdoors, that they do not otherwise get the opportunity to experience. Teaching the christian faith-each program is designed for a young man to grow in his walk in the christian faith. Through our devotional time, small group time, prayer time, and man time around the fire, we accomplish this. Positive personal growth-each young man, by having a mentor, will experience personal growth in the positive relationships that they are building. Young men are being referred from at-risk agencies in the communities and are able to fulfill the requirement for the agency and continue in our programs. These programs will result in walking away from at-risk behaviors, giving an outlet to express pain and hurts, while sharing from past bad decisions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $240.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $985K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.