Equippers Network International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270034639
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Waxhaw, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7049648776
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,076
- Expenses
- $78,502
- Assets
- $20,479
- Liabilities
- $1,187
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR RICHARD STRAHM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR RICHARD STRAHM (PRESIDENT)
- REV DON BURNETTE SR (BOARD MEMBER)
- DR JAMES SWEENEY (VICE PRESIDE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Equippers network international mission statement to prepare eastern european believers to serve the lord as cross-cultural ministers by: 1. Teaching in theological institutions 2. Leading church based conferences 3. Producing instructional materials 4. Producing instructional videos 5. Providing emergency humanitarian and spiritual aid to victims of the war in ukraine
What it reported doing in 2025
The ministry training program provides biblical teaching, ministry counseling, and practical training for ukrainian believers and church workers. Due to war-related travel limitations, training is now provided primarily online and through direct ministry to ukrainians in the united states. The program also develops teaching materials to strengthen ukrainian christians, pastors, and ministry leaders in their service to others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.2%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 9%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.2% of revenue deployed · 9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.