Advancing Native Missions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752402759
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Afton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5404567111
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,432,502
- Expenses
- $7,718,861
- Assets
- $1,942,697
- Liabilities
- $124,050
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OLIVER ASHER (PRESIDENT)
- DALE NIMMO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DALE NIMMO (CEO): $90,091 total reported compensation
- OLIVER ASHER (PRESIDENT): $81,862 total reported compensation
- AMBER PARKER (VP STAFF DEVELOPMENT): $63,020 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advancing Native Missions encourages, equips, and advocates for native missionaries around the world for strategic and fruitful ministry to introduce the Gospel of Jesus to unevangelized and unreached people where they live. When you partner with ANM, we connect you with trusted native missionaries serving in their own countries, regions, and communities. They already understand the local languages, cultures, and traditions. They live like the locals, so they need far less financial support than the typical American missionary. And they don’t need a passport or a visa — they already live in the mission field. In short, your church can have the greatest global impact through native missions. [cky_video_placeholder_title].
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization encourges, equips and advocates for native missionaries around the world, for strategic and fruitful ministry, to introduce the gospel of jesus to unevangelized and unreached people where they live. We seek out, evaluate, and support native missions ministries with a clear and defined evangelical statement of faith who are working among unreached people groups. We share this information with churches and individuals in north america and other regions who are willing to pray for and financially support these ministries. We bring church mission teams to serve our mission partners overseas, and we also provide conferences for native church leaders in their own regions, for encouragement and training. We also visit our mission partners overseas for accountability and greater impact in their regions. During 2025, our ministry partners worked in over 100 countries, including countries where followers of jesus experience the most severe persecution, and engaged with over 1,100 unreached people groups, by sharing the gospel and delivering practical help in jesus' name. We provide consistent and sustained prayer coverage for our mission partners, donors, staff and community. Also in 2025, we produced a professionally filmed documentary film called "to the ends", showcasing one of our native ministry partners in southeast asia. This film will be launched in early 2026 and will be available for church and group viewings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 72% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.