Frontier Harvest Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311802771
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Butler, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7242245715
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $281,510
- Expenses
- $460,030
- Assets
- $343,523
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Lenhart (President)
- Wendy Lenhart (Vice President)
- Jared Lenhart (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jared Lenhart (President): $41,200 total reported compensation
- Charles Lenhart (President): $39,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mobilize prayerwalking, Christian missionary education and church planting.
What it reported doing in 2025
Frontier Harvest Ministries (FHM) has spent the last 40 years engaged in evangelism, Gospel literature distribution, church planting among unreached tribal peoples, leadership development, Bible training, humanitarian outreach, and disaster relief throughout Asia FHM currently serves a growing network of over 400 churches representing more than 50,000 believers across multiple nations and ethnic groups. In China, FHM has helped bring the Gospel to 56 previously unreached ethnic people groups and is now actively working among 161 additional unreached and unengaged groups through initiatives such as The Quest and the Hidden Ethnic Initiative, bringing the total number of ethnic people groups engaged to 217. During 2025, ministry teams traveled over 70,000 kilometers throughout remote regions of Asia, sending workers to more than 150 unreached people groups and establishing over 60 new Homes of Peace among 43 newly engaged groups for future church planting and discipleship efforts. In Myanmar, FHM continued church planting, humanitarian aid, and disaster relief efforts, including the operation of six house churches in Mandalay, assistance with childrens homes and ministry facilities, feeding over 5,000 people in 2025, and responding to the March 2025 earthquake with emergency relief. Since 2018, FHM has built over 200 shelters, distributed more than 4,000 care packages, and impacted over 30,000 people through evangelism and outreach ministries. In Vietnam, FHM continued serving alongside a network of churches and leaders representing 12 minority people groups while organizing leadership training, mission trips, Christian literature distribution, and micro-business projects to support local ministers and expand Gospel outreach outreach among unreached communities. FHM also assisted families through chicken coop and animal husbandry projects designed to help sustain local ministers and strengthen long-term ministry efforts in rural communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -63.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $460K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.