Above & Beyond Missions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300786624
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Cornelius, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7048977340
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,823
- Expenses
- $1,126,949
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Michelle Hoverson (Executive Dir.): $49,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
An inter-denominational missions foundation that exists to end spiritual poverty through the sending of short-term missionaries.
What it reported doing in 2023
In 2022 the Above and Beyond Board of Directors determined that our Serve Local to Go global program had been impacted greatly due to the global pandemic as many other mission foundations were experiencing. While our Serve Local to Go Global was a tremendous success which assisting 1,350 global messengers to 89 nations over the span of operations. Our local global messengers had volunteered over 20,000 hours through over 479 local organizations to receive their Above and Beyond reward. Unfortunately, a new strategy was required to fulfill our mission to serving indigenous leaders in hard-to-reach nations. The Board of Directors of Above and Beyond Missions Inc. reviewed various strategies and selected a strategy that would serve our greater mission but would also change our program of Serve Local to Go Global. The Board of Directors reviewed various strategies and selected a strategy to vet nine ministries that had indigenous leaders reaching thousands in hard-to-reach nations. From October 2022 through February 2023, the Board of Directors would select several larger mission foundations that met the financial and direction of the organization discipleship program. In February 2023, the Board of Directors decided on the selected ministries and the funding of each, to distribute the endowment fund that Above and Beyond Missions had been building on and investing since inception of our ministry in 2007. After distribution of the funds to those selected ministries, Above and Beyond discontinued operations. The NC Secretary of State certified Articles of Dissolution on December 6, 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6,598.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.