Friends of Peru
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200931694
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Maple Grove, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7633771194
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,554
- Expenses
- $66,148
- Assets
- $9,111
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Posner (President)
- Joel Posner (Treasuer and Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Posner (President)
- Joel Posner (Treasuer and Vice President)
- Giannina Posner (Director and Board Member)
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
Friends of Peru delivers physical, mental, and spiritual support to abused and abandoned youth and young adults in Peru, while sharing the transformative gospel of Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2025
We partner with our sister organization "Amigos de Jesus" in Andahuaylas, Peru to serve 30+ women through a micro-loan program. We provide guidance, emotional support, and a place to meet monthly to discuss business issues/opportunities. We also serve regular meals for 10 children and young adults. We provide occasional meals and celebrations 50+ young adults. We also have Bible studies for those young adults and guests. We open up the facility to local churches for services and occasional retreats. We currently provide 1 on 1 support for those with complex trauma with the goal to have support group meeting regularly. Our budget is primarly for utilities, food, and administrative staff. While some staff participate in these programs, we don't allocate their time to them. We try to get volunteers from the community and churches as much as possible. We are new and seem to take 2 steps forward and 1 step back. It is a challenge to get the staff to reach out into the community and churches to find partners. We are in the process of implementing smaller, direct, measurable goals in order to get the staff more active. We are very encouraged however the people that are involved are passionate and greatful and we are teaching them to convert that energy to towards others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.