Walking Free Prison Ministry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882739930
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Forney, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2148646857
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,935
- Expenses
- $61,673
- Assets
- $5,692
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD R MCDONALD (President)
- SCOTT JOHNSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- EDWARD R MCDONALD (President)
- SCOTT JOHNSON (Vice President)
- BRADLEY GATHRIGHT (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The specific objectives and purpose of this organization shall be: Walking Free Prison Ministry exists to Share the hope that we have in JESUS through the proclamation of GODs word, discipleship, mentorship, teaching, and encouragement to those who are incarcerated and their families.a.Exhorting others to heed the still small voice of GOD.b.Teaching new ways of reacting to lifes hurts, habits, and hang-ups using tools found in Celebrate Recovery and other TDCJ approved programs.c.Providing accountability and mentorship to those who are ready to surrender to JESUS care and control for their life.d.To provide emotional and spiritual support for, and to break the stigma of, shame and guilt resulting from their loved ones incarceration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Walking Free Prison Ministry exist to Share the hope that we have in JESUS through the proclamation of GODs word, discipleship, mentorship, teaching, and encouragement to those who are incarcerated and their families.a.Exhorting others to heed the still small voice of GOD.b.Teaching new ways of reacting to lifes hurts, habits, and hang-ups using tools found in Celebrate Recovery and other TDCJ approved programs.c.Providing accountability and mentorship to those who are ready to surrender to JESUS care and control for their life.d.To provide emotional and spiritual support for, and to break the stigma of, shame and guilt resulting from their loved ones incarceration.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 80.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.