TVS Ministries
Legal name: TVS Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881628973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Linden, TX, United States
- Phone
- 903-756-8532
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,101,710
- Expenses
- $907,566
- Assets
- $594,235
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Peggy Valentine (Executive Dir.): $119,917 total reported compensation
- Ronnie Dean Valentine (CFO): $65,700 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 make available the truth of God’s Word to the most people using the best available teachers and methods. Global students seek spiritual truth through our programs, and our vision includes funding courses in various languages for online access across numerous continents. Whether to enhance their Bible knowledge, specialize in a specific ministry, or pursue a degree at TVSEMINARY, they find the resource that enriches their life through our seminary. With the assistance of our financial partners, we ensure unlimited learning opportunities for thousands! At TVS Ministries, it is our honor to serve those who financially support students of the many educational avenues of TVSEMINARY with stories from our students, translation progress of our courses into new languages, and informing them of new innov.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fund interactive online classes by select world renowned teachers of Biblical studies and systematic and practical theology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $908K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.