Fieldpartner International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752904630
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
College Station, TX, USA
Phone
9196027995
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$174,180
Expenses
$107,598
Assets
$174,051
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROSS PATERSON (CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • CHRISTINE PATERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROSS PATERSON (CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • CHRISTINE PATERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHANIE SHUGART (TREASURER)

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

Charitable, religious and educational purposes

What it reported doing in 2025

Cross-cultural awareness and education project: provide online courses, webcasts, podcasts and other resources on two separate online platforms (one in english and one in chinese) for current and prospective cross-cultural mission workers, in order to help them overcome challenges and remain in their cross-cultural role, and also provide interaction and coaching for current and prospective cross-cultural mission workers. Persons benefitted in 2025 include 22,756 views of our online courses, webinars and video podcast interviews, 3700 website users, and a total of 1269 email subscribers. This included 40 individuals as part of learning cohorts of three of our courses, who are part of twenty other mission organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.