Ethne Global Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273439802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Edmond, OK, USA
- Phone
- 303.726.9961
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $369,817
- Expenses
- $383,149
- Assets
- $52,212
- Liabilities
- $2,420
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donald Allan Karr (President/Founder)
Highest reported compensation
- Donald Allan Karr (President/Founder): $67,775 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ethne Global Services seeks to educate, train, and model life skills for each person we serve, helping at-risk people in 15 countries following Christian principles.
What it reported doing in 2025
Schools - People at risk are victims of a lack of education. Lack of education causes people to be at-risk. It is a root cause, and the result of the root cause. It is a chicken and egg issue, but is present in many of the places we serve. Even in low-income areas of the USA where we serve refugees this is a problem even in domestic venues of service. Internationally we have several schools. Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand are the showcase projects. We have students who, because of poor government schools or they are not allowed to go to government schools because of their at-risk status, now receive part or all of their education in our schools. These schools require us to deploy staff who are self funded. However, we have to maintain some facilities, curriculum, equipment and materials to teach. Computers are a big part of the expenses, but we have raised donations to get those in most cases.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $204.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 43.4%; rating input score 43; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $353K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.