Unique Student Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275401627
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2812636627
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,145
- Expenses
- $102,229
- Assets
- $15,919
- Liabilities
- $669
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAIME GARCIA (President)
People named in this filing
- JAIME GARCIA (President)
- GILBERT FERREYRA (Secretary)
- NICK SUKACH (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We exist to glorify god and make disciples by understanding the neglected and embracing the task to advance the mission of jesus christ to inner-city students providing gospel centered platforms, elevating the truth; leading them to live unique lifestyles as ambassadors of jesus christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
To evangelize to inner-city youth through multi-day annual christian conferences. Approximately 1,000 youth participated at each conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.