Amy For Africa
Legal name: Amy for Africa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465080886
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Ashland, KY, USA
- Phone
- (606) 571-1031; (606) 923-2071
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $648,019
- Expenses
- $655,341
- Assets
- $877,354
- Liabilities
- $2,327
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK MAYNARD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY COMPSTON (VICE-PRESIDE): $58,835 total reported compensation
- CHRIS COMPSTON (TREASURER): $29,773 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a mission committed to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ and following His instruction to “Go Tell!” to the uttermost parts of the world. Amy has run in several world marathons, including multiple appearances in the Boston Marathon. She competed in the 2013 Boston Marathon that was marred by the terrorist bombings. She finished the race 30 minutes ahead of the bombs and 22 family members left two minutes before the bombs detonated at the finish line where they had been the entire day. Her mission organization, Amy For Africa, began in May 2013 and has grown in support so much that Amy was able to quit her 12-year career as a registered nurse and become a fulltime missionary for the organization in March 2017. Her husband, Chris, was also able to join her on the mission field fulltime in 2021, quitting his nursing job. A book a.
What it reported doing in 2025
To help as a fundraising arm for united christian expedition and the penne paris schools in moyo, uganda, and to share god's amazing and unfailing love through testimonies in the communities served.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 39
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $655K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.