Report: 20 Ministries with an ‘F’ Transparency Grade
MinistryWatch is an organization designed to empower donors to Christian ministries. They do this by “profiling public Christian charities, churches, and parachurch ministries” and then reporting on the results to “limit consequences of scams and prevention of fraudulent activity, promote better allocations of giving, encourage intelligent questions of organizational structure, financial health, and advance the idea of organizational transparency and best practices.”
Long being considered the gold standard for their thoroughness and breadth of information, when they audit ministries, they look for three things: the completion and public availability of a Form 990, the completion and public release of an audited financial statement, and membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)
The grading system is simple.
- If a ministry complies with all three of the standards above, that ministry will receive a Transparency Grade of “A.”
- If a ministry meets two of the three standards, that ministry will receive a “C.”
- If a ministry meets only one of these standards, it will receive a “D.”
- If it fails to meet any of the three standards, that ministry will receive a Transparency Grade of “F.”
Last week they released their 2023 Least Transparent Christian Ministries to Donate To, and its about what you’d expect- basically all populated by Word-Faith heretics who are known to make millions of preaching the prosperity gospel.
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Imagine that.
They just rounded up all the usual suspects …..
(What ! No Jesse Duplantis ? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked 😳 )