Ministries Not Filing a Form 990 Almost 200 ministries comprise this list, including some of the largest in the country.
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This second list for March from the MinistryWatch 1000 database features the 189 Christian ministries that do not file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service.
The groups are listed alphabetically, and some of the largest ministries in the country are included on the list: Compassion International, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Focus on the Family, Cru, and Wycliffe Bible Translators.
The Form 990 is an informational tax return for nonprofit organizations, but church and church associations are exempt from the filing requirement. In recent years, more and more Christian ministries have been seeking to be designated as a church or association of churches in order to gain the exemption.
The form includes such information as annual revenue, salaries of key employees, names of board members and large contractors, and the amount of money the organization spends on its core mission. It also provides details how much an organization spends on administrative and fundraising. This information is valuable to donors wanting to assess the effectiveness of a ministry; therefore, MinistryWatch takes the position that ministries should complete the Form 990.
Any ministry in the database that does not complete a Form 990 receives zero stars for financial efficiency. It also affects the ministry’s transparency grade and donor confidence score.
Updated annual revenue is not included on the list for these ministries, but if they are a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), some limited financial data is available through the “Find a Member” tab on the ECFA website.
Content retrieved from: https://ministrywatch.com/ministries-not-filing-a-form-990/.
