GraceWorks Alaska
Legal name: Global Partnership Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581898933
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9074404974
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,152,459
- Expenses
- $1,048,773
- Assets
- $7,149,054
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT KIRBY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT KIRBY (PRESIDENT): $10,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
GraceWorks Alaska provides mission volunteers with the chance to build relationships with those in need and spread the hope of Jesus. Our passion is to help people hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and demonstrate what it means to love each other through service. GraceWorks exists to share the gospel and mobilize mission team volunteers to carry out the good news - to bring the love of Christ to people in Alaskan communities. We minister to non-churched people by sharing Bible stories, feeding the hungry, leading recreation, playing games, doing crafts, and enjoying worship. We utilize this foundation to connect those we serve with the message of Jesus, so that His name is taken to the ends of the earth. Our goal is to transform Alaska by winning new Believers, growing disciples and starting new gatherings of believers. We will not be satisfied until we see a remarkable, multiplying...
What it reported doing in 2024
This was the largest jesus outreach event of the year in Alaska. We had 69 church groups totaling 1040 mission volunteers serve this past summer-plus about 70 staff. Church teams came from 24 states including Hawaii. Our teams work for eight weeks five days a week in 14 different public city parks and mobile home parks. We fed thousands of meals in underserved neighborhoods. Provided safe and fun spaces for all ages to attend and kept our emphasis on the gospel of christ and gods word through teaching, games, crafts, music and personal conversations. We documented over 3,060 gospel shares, 49 salvations, and 20 baptisms in the parks. Each week graceworks hosted a new set of teams to carry out park ministry. We housed our mission teams in 3 locations. Also provided food, lodging and transportation, and service projects to serve our communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.82; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.