2025-03-06T11:56:33-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 237259773 TRINITY FOUNDATION INC TRIN 2148272625 5640 Columbia Ave Dallas TX 75214 John Evans president 2147383349 2025-03-06 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://trinityfi.org X X 73608 X 58666 0 0 765 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14177 73608 0 0 34082 0 27405 232 31943 93662 -20054 83373 0 63319 X 42846 29176 0 0 41746 37490 84592 66666 1219 3347 83373 63319 A "Watchdog", Investigating Religious Fraud and Excess, The Foundation is one of the nation's leading religious-media "watchdogs". Information requests are met regularly from local, regional, national and international print and television media organizations and podcasts. In addition, we regularly provide information to the exempt organization division of the IRS and other governmental and law enforcement agencies. Watchdog on Ministry Abuse (investigating religious fraud and excess)--Trinity Foundation is one of the nation's leading religious-media watchdogs looking at misuse of donor money, etc. Information requests are met regularly from local, regional, national, and international print and television media organizations and podcasts. In addition, we regularly provide information to the exempt organization division of the IRS and other governmental and law enforcement agencies. The number of persons helped is not quantifiable, but we believe we reach thousands of individuals, a number of whom are victims or relatives of victims of religious fraud. about 75 % of our program services activities were involved with this program service. 0 60321 Low Income Housing--In 1995 and again in 1998, Trinity Foundation acquired multifamily housing facilities in OK City and in Dayton, OH to provide low cost housing for poor and distressed. Now we only provide low-income housing in 2 apartments; 2 persons benefitted in one apartment and one person in another (3 total). 2) Subsidizing low-income housing-approximately 22% of our activities were involved with this program service this year (mostly due to a costly, time-consuming remodel of unit 106) 0 17220 Service Corps-a small percentage of our activities were involved with this program service, managing community service "volunteers", doing yardwork and maintenance on non-profit property, etc. Specifically started as a practical resource for our community and for providing an on-going work rehabilitation program for the people we serve. Slightly less than 1% of our program services activities were involved with this program service. 0 689 4) Meeting need: medical, hunger, homelessness, etc. After an increase last year to approximately 10% of our accomplishments, the dollar amount spent on charity decreased somewhat in 2024. Approximately 1.5% of our program service activities were involved with helping the Community on Columbia Church serve needy individuals. 0 1140 79370 Pete John P Evans president 35 6410 0 0 Glenn Evans Vice-President 0 0 0 0 Mike Renfro Secretary / Treasurer 0 0 0 0 Thomas Ternan director 0 0 0 0 Monique Bell director 0 0 0 0 Brian Kelcher Director 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pete John P Evans 5640 Columbia Ave Dallas TX 75214 2148272625 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 78547 81238 75466 72478 58665 366394 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78547 81238 75466 72478 58665 366394 228380 138014 9592 10631 9504 14880 14437 59044 0 0 0 0 0 0 788 0 0 2580 506 3874 429312 0.32148 0.45388 X Trinity Foundation maintains a "Donate" page on our public website and sends out a monthly email newsletter to over 750 recipients. Each newsletter asks for donations at the bottom and links to our donate page. Here's an example of some recent wording used: SUPPORT: We are a public, non-profit that relies on our members' generous support. Membership is $25 per year. Membership is required to vote in our yearly membership meetings. We are still collecting funds to hire an additional investigator; however, there has been a decrease in our donations for some reason and currently we need money for normal operations. To donate or become a member, donate here (linked to website). Please consider donating monthly. Trinity Foundation also solicits donations on social media. For example, on December 3, 2024, for National Giving Day, we informed our Facebook followers, "What is your donation to Trinity Foundation achieving? We estimate that $35 buys one hour of investigation of religious fraud and excess." We conducted a raffle in March 2024 as a fundraiser, selling tickets online with the winner receiving a free stay at a ranch on the Brazon River. The raffle raised almost $1,000 after expenses. More information is available at the following link. We believe our mission represents and benefits the broad interests of the donating public by exposing fraud and the misuse of donor money. Reporters, YouTubers, Podcasters, and victims contact us regularly for information. Nobody likes to be scammed and almost everybody wants their donation to help somebody or an impoverished group of people. Our membership dues are $25 during the year ending December 31st and we believe are reasonable enough to provide broad access through a cross-section of the interested public who want to see their donations used where the money is truly needed and not fattening some wealthy individual's pockets. Our organization's president consistently collects a small salary. Our governing body of six board members has a keen interest in helping the public and exposing fraud. We believe this 2024 year's drop in donations from the general public is only temporary and will increase back to normal levels this year, in 2025. The temporary drop could possibly be explained by an extremely above average amount of funding going to political campaigns in a presidential election year, no matter what party. Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 income from cash back on our company credit card $506 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 rental income from two small apartments, $13,671; cash rewards on company credit card $506 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Religious Watchdog activities are data search fees, membership, meeting fees, monitoring televangelists sat TV, licensing, continuing education, P.I. liability insurance, D & O insurance, podcast expenses = $ 5,618; Extensive remodel and repairs to apt. 106 $ 12,432; Homeowner dues - our 2 small Trinity Foundation apartments $ 7,200; depreciation $ 4,255; meeting needs of housing and utilities (two different single moms) $1,140; entertain informant $85; volunteers and employee dinner $133; bank & finance charges (PayPal, Givebutter, PNC bank, etc.) $460; Auto (AAA memb., fuel, tolls) $205; computer hardware & software $107; Office prod. $227; fundraising $81 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 2 small apartments owned by Trinity Foundation $75000; furniture and computer equipment, shelving in storage, etc. $9,875; less accumulated depreciation -$47385 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 credit card $646; payroll liabilities $612; security deposits $2,090