Amistad Mission Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
631011215
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Phone
6154063070
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,348,420
Expenses
$1,117,402
Assets
$5,390,211
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANN JONES (PRESIDENT)
  • CHRIS KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRIS KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $163,240 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Amistad mission manifests christ's love for the poor by helping bolivian children and families in need. Amistad provides nurturing christian family environments for vulnerable children to grow to independent adulthood and to strengthen families in crisis to establish loving and stable homes.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, amistad mission served the medical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of 83 abused, abandoned or orphaned children and young adults between the ages of 1 to 24 through its supporting programs in villa amistad, three youth houses, and independent life. Among these 83 children and young adults, amistad supported 60 children living in villa amistad (between the ages of 1 to 17 years), 16 youth living in either the organization's boys or girls youth house (between the ages of 13 to 21 years), and 7 young adults (between the ages of 22 to 24 years) living independently in apartments in cochabamba, bolivia. Amistad supported 10 students in university or technical school. Beginning in 2014, the organization initiated a program called amistad for families that seeks to prevent child abuse and abandonment among vulnerable families in the city. In 2025, amistad mission worked comprehensively with 82 vulnerable families from the local district through services of counseling, tutoring, home and school visits, psychological evaluations, parenting classes, family development plans, daily nutritious meals for children, microloans and advocacy for children's rights. Since 2014, amistad for families has strengthened over 500 families and saved over 1,100 children from parental separation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: 17.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.82; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $952K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.