Agape Intl Children Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820676821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cathedral City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9098441886
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $753,611
- Expenses
- $664,014
- Assets
- $294,192
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDRA BALLI (PRESIDENT)
- AARON CRONEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARY JO TAIT (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SANDRA BALLI (PRESIDENT): $66,000 total reported compensation
- AARON CRONEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $50,029 total reported compensation
- GARY JONES (FINANCIAL OFFICER): $11,293 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide a sponsorship program for abandoned children at risk in uganda. Provide and operate an orphange for abandoned , vulnerable children at risk in a village environment in uganda.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, aicm continued to see the faithfulness of god through the lives of children, families, churches and communities across uganda. Over 350 children continued to receive access to education, food, clothing, health care, spiritual discipleship, amd safe housing support. Children remained active in church, weekly devotions, and discipleship opportunities.students continued to show strong academic performance and successfully advanced to the next grade level. 1. Contined training and empowerment of woemn through the community poultry project, providing income opportunities and practical sustainability for families. As of 202 we have trained and equipped 500 women. 2.hosted the 8th annual womens conference, bringing 700 women together for worship, encouragement, discipleship and leadership development. 3.community outreach, providing chickens, food support and practical assistance to vulnerable families in need.
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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $556K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.