African Mission Healthcare Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273663856
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Deland, FL, USA
- Phone
- 6142597229
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,536,832
- Expenses
- $13,288,857
- Assets
- $39,110,007
- Liabilities
- $1,533,124
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT MARCELLO (PRESIDENT)
- JON FIELDER (VICE CHAIR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE)
- JONATHAN MWIINDI (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JONATHAN MWIINDI (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $190,622 total reported compensation
- SCOTT MARCELLO (PRESIDENT): $155,736 total reported compensation
- JON FIELDER (VICE CHAIR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE): $113,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
African mission healthcare (amh) exists to strengthen african mission hospitals to aid those in greatest need. Amh helps generous individuals, churches, and other donors to increase the reach and impact of effective health workers and established mission hospitals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Amh supports mission hospitals and medical clinics in the sub-saharan region of africa. It provides financial support and expertise that strengthens its mission hospital partners to serve people in greatest need. Amh's programs focus on strengthening and expanding clinical care, equipment and infrastructure, medical education, and hospital operations. In 2025, amh made investments that will make more than 2.8 million lifetime patient visits possible and approximately 474,841 direct patient visits over the twelve months. Amh also enabled a total of 6,726 surgical and corrective procedures. (continued on schedule o)amh's selected investments in equipment and infrastructure during 2025 included: completed construction of the new birthing center, installation of a new solar power system, and started construction of a new diagnostic center at rwibaale hospital in uganda; completed the remodeling and and renovation of the surgical operating room at rushoroza hospital in uganda; completed the remodeling and equipping of the laboratory at naivasha health center; started construction of a new surgical complex at nkhoma hospital in malawi; completed construction of the second phase of the hospital's training classrooms and started construction of training resident housing at kijabe hospital in kenya; started construction of a pediatric ward at in deed and truth hospital, completed remodeling of the pharmacy at sim doro clinic, and completed the equipping of the pediatric ward at st. Theresa hospital, all in in south sudan; and completed construction of a new high-dependency unit at mother of mercy teaching and referral hospital in sudan. During 2025 our investments in equipment and infrastructure totaled $2.7 million. Amh also enabled training for 558 healthcare workers through short courses, undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and anesthesia and clinical training programs. Amh's online learning platform enables training tailored for kenyan clinical officers ("cos"), medical professionals like physician assistants in the united states. In 2025, a total of 284,274 models were completed and 4,809 new users were enrolled on the online platform. Users from kenya and 17 other countries are registered. More than 100,000 feedback instances have been collected from the total enrolled users, with more than 99% indicating they had learned something
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.94; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $191K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $267K reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.