Elisabeth Elliot Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851524463
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, USA
- Phone
- 8437661233
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,658
- Expenses
- $28,602
- Assets
- $645,461
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHY REEG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHY REEG (PRESIDENT)
- ARLITA WINSTON (SECRETARY)
- CURT YEO (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of the corporation shall be: the elisabeth elliot foundation (the "foundation") is based on the life, love, and ministries of the late christian missionaries, elisabeth and jim elliot. The foundation will be an ongoing, worldwide, multi-cultural, outreach through all forms of media, including but not limited to, print, digital, audio, and visual forms, all speaking god's word of truth into the hearts of men, women and children with the following purposes: to inspire hope in suffering, restoration in conflict and joy in obedience to the lord jesus christ, all in accordance with biblical truth and teachings; to advise, protect and oversee the ongoing ministry of jim and elisabeth elliot and faithfully keep the legacy available to the current culture through, online venues, films, exhibits, publications, and college archives; to support, advise and educate on global christian missions all in advance of the bible's "great commission" set forth in the gospel of matthew;
What it reported doing in 2024
We have continued developing our website and have furthered negotiations for securing rights to distribute various media. We developed an exhibit of artifacts from elisabeth and jim ellit's life and sponsored this exhibit at the museum of the bible in Washington dc for another year. This is now a traveling exhibit. We are continuing the production of a documentary about elisabeth's life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.4%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 87.5%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.57; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.4% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.