Unashamed Truth Ministries
Legal name: Unashamed Truth Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920664205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- Phone
- 9193971162
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $233,972
- Expenses
- $203,398
- Assets
- $149,129
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Grant Castleberry (President)
- Andrew Abbott (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Dustin Benge (Managing Director): $60,000 total reported compensation
- Grant Castleberry (President): $36,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To awaken a new generation to God-centered Christianity—where Christ and His honor are the highest aim.
What it reported doing in 2024
Content development and distribution across multiple social media platforms including: Facebook Instagram. X Threads and Youtube including Podcasts distributed via Apple and Spotify. These programs touched 100,000 around the world.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 13.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.3% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.