Christadelphian Bible Mission of the Americas
Overview
Mission
Preaching the Gospel in Latin America
What it reported doing in 2021
Sole Mission - Preaching the Gospel in Latin America
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237075338
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Headquarters
- Simi Valley, CA, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related
- Affiliation
- Christianity
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $119.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 21.1%; rating input score 21; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.04; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 88.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 102.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $760K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 40 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2020 to 2021
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.