A Jesus Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464142465
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Modesto, CA, US
- Phone
- +1-209-857-9468
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,922,927
- Expenses
- $1,749,583
- Assets
- $360,005
- Liabilities
- $66,140
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PIERCE WESTFALL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PIERCE WESTFALL (PRESIDENT): $43,314 total reported compensation
- DIANA WESTFALL (SECRETARY): $26,760 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Jesus Mission exists to help missionaries stay where they’re called by reducing administrative and financial burdens so they can focus on their calling.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program is sending missionaries. We help prepare christian missionaries to go into the world. We help prepare them. Before with training and while they are in different areas of the world, we help make sure they are getting the care they need for longevity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $291.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $150K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.