Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Inc

Overview

Mission

Evangelical christian publishers association is an international not-for- profit trade organization serving its industry by providing an opportunity for publishers of evangelical christian literature to exchange experience and opinions through discussion, study and publications; to promote the arts and sciences of publication; to develop and encourage high standards of service and conduct of publishers; to promote the common business interest of publishers through periodic meetings and seminars; to exchange mutually beneficial ideas and information; to promote professional excellence through training, research, sharing of strategy and initiating programs for the solving of common problems of publishers through the pooling of ideas; to exalt the name of the lord jesus christ and to proclaim the gospel so that the people may come to know him as savior and lord and make his word known; to promote christian education by encouraging the study, learning and reading of christian literature in

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - Most voting board members are independent and revenue 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: 0
• Transparency & Controls: 46
• Accountability: 100
• Sustainability: 32
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
• Leadership: top reported pay $188K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
• Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.