For The Nations DC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830656754
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Falls Church, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036833348
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $669,907
- Expenses
- $579,935
- Assets
- $316,872
- Liabilities
- $7,850
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Sicks (President)
- Grace Tung (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Matthew Kasowski (Executive Dir.): $48,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We offer hope and help to refugee, asylumseeking, and immigrant families in the Washington D.C. metro area. We provide educational programs that help families learn English. We provide practical assistance and connections to community resources that can help them thrive. Finally, we proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ as the ultimate hope of healing for the brokenness we all experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
Daytime English Program. We host these programs at two locations in Alexandria and Fairfax. These programs served 205 adults and 43 children from August 2024 - July 2025. These programs meet three times per week, and include Adult English classes and free early childhood program for children 0-5 years old. These programs prioritize serving women with young children. We create a welcoming supportive community where students can feel safe sharing their burdens and needs as they navigate life in a new place. This year we provided practical help 308 times for a variety of service including job searching, resume writing, and support with navigating healthcare, schooling, the DMV, etc. We also hosted 7 resourcing events to help connect students to resources in the community that can help them flourish. These programs offer opportunities for adults to hear about a God who loves them, read stories from the Bible, receive prayer, and ask spiritual questions.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 13.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $394K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.