Firm
Legal name: Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472768324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grapevine, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8132353367
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,347,583
- Expenses
- $23,270,781
- Assets
- $7,013,816
- Liabilities
- $417,779
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wayne Hilsden (President & Chairman)
- Michael Mistretta (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Mistretta (CEO): $193,479 total reported compensation
- Vanessa Mistretta (CPO (Began 1/24)): $152,849 total reported compensation
- Steve Carpenter (COO): $133,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries (FIRM) works toward a day when every person in Israel is transformed by the love of Yeshua/Jesus, engaging Christians and empowering local gospel-centered ministries in Israel to transform lives. FIRM ensures that financial support for Israel goes to gospel-centered ministries in a transparent and effective way. We promise to show you where your money is going and the lives that you are impacting all along the way. Gifts are stewarded within a network of 80+ local Israeli ministries, to transform lives with the love of Jesus. Ministries are strengthened and united, and their kingdom work is advanced. Finally, FIRM educates Christian leaders, churches, and the next generation on God’s heart for Israel, the importance of Israel to their faith, and their part to play in the story of the family of God.
What it reported doing in 2024
Engaging Christians Globally - The Organization inspires, educates, and mobilizes Christians around the world to love Israel and the Jewish people in a gospel-centered way. The Organization inspires those unfamiliar with God's heart for Israel to see His plan and begin to love Israel. The Organization educates Christians through events, tours, courses, resources, and documentaries that highlight the body of believers in Israel and God's work in the land today. The Organization mobilizes Christians to get actively involved by praying, serving, giving, and visiting Israel. Through these efforts, The Organization is building a global movement of Christians who support and partner with the local body of believers in Israel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $91.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 49.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $840K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.