Why Not Now Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453582712
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Benicia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9252302818
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,350
- Expenses
- $97,748
- Assets
- $41,935
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Neitz (President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Neitz (President)
- Rolf Crocker (Secretary)
- Jerry Pollard (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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Why Not Now Ministries has been organized to provide charitable distributions to assist children in countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia who have been rescued from slavery or are otherwise considered to be at-risk. More specifically, the organization provides distributions as well as support to help set up transitional family style homes for these children in order to help remove them from dangerous situations and begin their rehabilitation. By providing these distributions and this assistance, WNN helps to improve the quality of life for at-risk youths in the countries around the world.
What it reported doing in 2016
WNN believes that water filtration is a key to prevention of sexual exploitation. There are many communities that live without clean drinking water, or access to clean water. When a child gets sick, if they don't have means to pay, the child will not receive medical attention. Many families in this position are forced to borrow money and this places the child at high risk of sexual exploitation because of the people they borrow money from. WNN provides free water filters to the families and communities. These water filters can provide 10 people clean water for life and are easy to maintain. WNN has provided 40 water filters to help 400 people have clean water for life.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 71
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: 8.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -39.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.