Agape Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562222794
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9192598581
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,967
- Expenses
- $180,408
- Assets
- $23,107
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wanbing Frank Li (President & CEO)
- Aijun Anna Li (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Wanbing Frank Li (President & CEO)
- Aijun Anna Li (Vice President)
- Yi-Ting Ding (Board Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide biblical training and provide financial assistance to pastors, missionaries, students and their families in Cambodia and China.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mercy Program Awarded 57 scholarships to students in Cambodia and the US. Supplied snack funds for six churches' soccer and children's ministries. Provided financial support for eight pastors. Provided food and disaster relief to over 600 families during the Cambodia and Thailand border confilcts. Staff salaries and benefits (20%) attributable to program delivery: $20,583.44
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 40% for direct work, and 60% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.8%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.8% of revenue deployed · 52.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.