財團法人基督徒救世會社會福利事業基金會
Legal name: Christian Salvation Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980085066
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Woodland Hills, CA, Taiwan
- Phone
- (02)2729-5961
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,013,144
- Expenses
- $1,331,108
- Assets
- $13,621
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- DR JAMES MISER (PRES/CHAIR)
- DR P JOSEPH POWERS (Secretary)
- FREDRICK N VOIGTMANN (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
基於「尊重人貌及生命價值」的信念，救助困難中的婦女和孩童／受助者，提供受助者身、心、靈全方位的人格照顧服務，用「愛」與「真誠」協助受助者，順利度過人生困境，並避免其陷入困境。. Your support will make a difference We need your generous donation to support CSS Roots services. CSS also providing assistance to families facing challenging situations to prevent them from falling into crisis. We aim to raise funds through this initiative to aid children in need and support women in crisis. We need your generous donation to support CSS Roots services. CSS provides access to resources, counseling services, and regular visits, giving them the opportunity to lead normal lives.
What it reported doing in 2020
Christian Salvation Service (CSS) provided assistance to women, children and families in need by phone (approximately 16 times per month) and face-to-face interviews (approximately 12 times per month), including consultations, placement, respite care, adoption, career counseling, education and other counseling. CSS provided medical care to premature babies, and babies with special needs until they return to the care of their parents, are adopted, or referred. There were 37 babies served during the year. CSS provided adoption service to 38 unwed mothers, and provided 0 local adopters workshop due to termination of Adoption Service. Assisted in completion of 35 adoption cases. CSS provided a half-way house for 25 vulnerable babies which included 175 hospital or medical clinic visits. CSS provided 19 training workshops with 94 attendees of the government and NGO social worker community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.