Faithquest Missions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320268811
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Laguna Niguel, CA, USA
Phone
9492809614
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$281,128
Expenses
$249,915
Assets
$345,347
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • John Gash (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • John Gash (President): $96,000 total reported compensation
  • Jerry Hill (Minister - Pastor): $45,375 total reported compensation
  • Paul ''Bud'' Thoreen (Minister - Pastor): $15,546 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To awaken and activate the church to put faith into action for the lost last and least of the world. The Great Commissions mandate to Go is at the heart of our purpose and actions. We are a catalyst and facilitator for outreach for people and their churches including recruiting training and sending missions leaders and everyday disciple-makers locally and globally.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mobilized people and their churches to put their faith into action: Worked with leaders and hundreds members of churches within the US in 2025 to facilitate tangibly meeting needs and sharing the love of Jesus Christ. This was to both within local communities here in the USA and to the extreme poor in areas of great needs in the world. Helping people and their churches see and embrace local opportunities in their own communities is a growing segment of our work. We aided our partner churches with encouragement creative ideas and opportunities while championing and facilitating partnerships and alliances. This with other churches missions and relief organizations plus we provided service and mission trip organization engagement campaigns and raising funds for compassionate causes near their church and around the world. The results included a great many individuals and their churches growing in their faith and action while serving the poor of the world and here in the USA. It also resulted in significant financial and resource giving directly to Christian relief and development organizations they became aware of in the course of serving others. 2025 was a year of FaithQuest doing more helping leaders and their churches as well as everyday disciples of Jesus respond to a worried and troubled world in their local communities with faith love and tangible compassion.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 48
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 87.3%; rating input score 87; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 62.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $232K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 39 of 42 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.