Global Missions Strategies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453716675
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Talking Rock, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6783273530
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,935
- Expenses
- $186,995
- Assets
- $76,088
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES BRIANT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAMES BRIANT (PRESIDENT)
- CHAD LUCK (CHAIRMAN)
- MARISA BROWN (SECRETARY)
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
To provide for christian communities in africa
What it reported doing in 2025
Successfully completed our eleventh year in cape verde, training locals to plant churches and build evangelical infrastructure (the local church), meeting the needs of locals through food banks, basic medical needs, educating them in farming and occupational training to be able to support themselves and their families. Gospel work has moved to three of the other islands of the ten inhabitable ones: fogo, boa vista and sal. Furthermore, since cape verde has direct trade and cultural exchange with the nation of guinea bissau and brazil, the effects of our work among cape verdians is now influencing portions of these nations too, which have led us to begin work in those areas too. We continue our exit strategy in cape verde, which means we will reduce our time there and begin investing ourselves in new areas of west africa and even europe, namely portugal. Church plants have reached well over 50 now and local workers are in abundance. Our role is resourcing the local workers. For the next year, we will continue to resource cape verde leadership, investing in the local workers, supplying bibles and training materials, housing and travel needs as the work continues to move from the main island of santiago to other islands and nations in west africa. We will establish a "hub" in portugal since it is central and very good "gateway" location to travel to west africa and also begin work among the locals in portugal.
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 88% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
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: -38.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.