COME International Baptist Ministries
Legal name: COME International Baptist Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237000755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Pontiac, IL, United States
- Phone
- 815-844-2663
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $396,962
- Expenses
- $400,136
- Assets
- $162,784
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Fishburn (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Mark Fishburn (President & CEO): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
COME International Baptist Ministries, Inc is dedicated to providing soul-winning, strengthening, short-term ministries to independent, fundamental, gospel-preaching, baptistic churches worldwide (including indigent areas), through cooperation with local pastors, missionary pastors, national pastors, and other mission agencies, specializing in evangelistic and revival meetings, Bible and missions conferences, interim and church rescue pastorates, camps and vacation Bible schools, children’s meetings, Deaf ministry, and home and foreign projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
In accordance with COME's mission statement, here are some of the estimated statistics for the year in the way the evangelists of COME assisted churches -Our ministry personnel have visited churches in 14 of the 50 states of the United States and have served in at least 6 countries outside of the United States.Meetings were held in 49 independent Baptist churches, with 336 logged decisions for Christ. In addition, ministry was performed in relief camps; 1 Bible camp and 1 retreat; 19 conferences; 11 revival meetings; 5 Christian School chapels; 2 Vacation Bible Schools. Other ministry related work included Bible distribution; door-to-door ministries; deaf training seminars; widows and ladies' ministries; one funeral and one wedding; one-one Bible studies; nursing home ministry; hospital visitation; assisting churches with building, office, and equipment needs; just to name a few of the ministries. Ministry was also performed via social media outlets and online tools such as Zoom, Facebook, etc.In providing these services, tens of thousands miles were travelled by 28 ministry personnel, affiliates, their families, staff, and board members.
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $381K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.