Afm Ministry Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454791577
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rowlett, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4697125338
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $664,162
- Expenses
- $664,162
- Assets
- $512,335
- Liabilities
- $7,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Bys (President/Kenyan Director)
People named in this filing
- Joel Toland (Board Member/Administrator)
- Kenneth Henricks (Board Member/ Assistant Director)
- Jeff Bys (President/Kenyan Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Christian international para-church mission ministry governed by biblical truth that sends and supports missionaries and indigenous ministers to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all nations. We equip and train Church leaders & live out compassionate care for the poor and needy of the world caring for orphans, widows and needy as God enables us. Our focus remains and even expanded on our Mercy Ministries-AFM Africa cross-cultural mission in Kenya. Read the descriptions below in the program accomplishments to see some of our diversity of our work.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mercy Ministries-AFM Africa is our primary mission where we are serving the poor and needy in western Kenya with our commissioned missionaries Jeff and Stephanie Bys and 7 of their children. In 2024 we have continued to take in more at-risk children into both our Mercy Children's Home and our Mercy Christian Academy and expanded our services to the local community to avert serious crisis as droughts continue to affect Kenya. While continuing our aid to the local community through Gospel training, feedings and care for the needy, we used much of the year to build up needed campus facilities including a large Dining/Meeting Hall and grew the High school campus. Many many badly needed costly upgrades were completed while still taking care of hundreds of poor children and community members. These costs include, paying full time staff, monthly meat budget and food budgets for over 200 people weekly.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $664K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.