Washed in the Word Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932574013
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Saint Augustine, FL, USA
Phone
9049073135
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$216,575
Expenses
$219,885
Assets
$234,144
Liabilities
$2,648

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sean Doyle (President)
  • James Kragenbring (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sean Doyle (President): $48,002 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 edify Christians and strengthen churches by providing religious education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Washed in the Word exists to edify Christians and strengthen churches by providing free Bible teaching and Bible study resources. Our goal is to foster Biblical maturation through Biblical saturation in churches and individuals. During 2025, our inaugural year of programming, we carried out our primary exempt purpose through both online and in-person Bible teaching. Each week we release a new expository Bible teaching, which is distributed via washedintheword.life and on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other social platforms. In 2025, we released 52 unique teachings with supporting study resources, comprehensively teaching through the Biblical books of Joshua, James, Judges, and 2 Timothy. Our weekly audience was composed primarily of individuals and small groups, who gathered to watch and listen to Washed in the Word teaching and engage in discussion guided by our study resources. The online ministry reached a growing, geographically diverse audience, as evidenced by active listeners and viewers in 46 different countries by year-end. In addition to weekly online ministry, our Executive Director and Lead Teacher taught in person 49 times across the United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Live teaching engagements included local church ministry (sermons, sermon series, and multi-week small group Bible studies), academic ministry (teaching apologetics to missionary candidates and others training for Christian ministry), and missions (speaking in support of global missions). All instruction and resources, whether delivered online or in-person, were provided at no cost to the recipients, supported by our administrative and production infrastructure.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -1.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.