Florida Church Planting Network Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462823409
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2017
Location
Bonita Springs, FL, USA
Phone
3214399556
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$414,241
Expenses
$453,442
Assets
$225,381
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Edgar J McDougall (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Edgar J McDougall (Executive Director): $111,451 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Florida Church Planting Network is a voluntary association of participating churches within the Central Florida, North Florida, Southwest Florida, Korean Southeast, and Suncoast Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church of America ("PCA") that plants and supports new churches, supports and promotes the growth of existing churches, and supports and promotes new and existing chapters of campus ministries. (PCA churches are divided into geographic areas and are referred to as presbyteries.)The Organization accomplishes its exempt purposes by 1) recruiting church planters, 2) strategically planting new Gospel Centered Presbyterian Church in America churches, 3) planting and supporting Reformed University Fellowship ministries on college campuses, 4) coaching and shepherding church planters and their wives, 5) promoting the spread of the reformed faith, and 6) providing financial resources for these activities.

What it reported doing in 2017

Coaching and training activities: The Organization assists in providing training and assessment programs for new pastors such as the PCA church planter assessment programs which help develop recently-graduated seminary students. Furthermore, the Organization facilitates spaces for coaching of new church pastors, apprentices, and other interested pastors and teachers in the presbyteries. The Organization hosts periodic meetings with speakers with church planting experience to provide prayer as well as a time for sharing challenges and potential solutions within the context of church planting. The Organization also facilitates and organizes a support group for new church pastor's wives. One of the specific training programs developed by the Organization is the pastor apprentice training program. In the apprentice program, the Organization recruits qualifying seminary graduates to work for two years for one of the Organization's member churches in order to gain ministry experience and training. The Organization may make grants to the employing church to assist in the training and development of the pastor during this two-year training. Once the two year "apprenticeship" period is completed, the minister plants a church in one of the member presbyteries, with the Organization's ongoing training and support.

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 87% 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. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 87.3%; rating input score 87; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $340K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.