Global Serve International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821585100
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5182291081
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,551,161
- Expenses
- $5,751,109
- Assets
- $15,785,289
- Liabilities
- $201,415
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Moore (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeff Affonso (Director)
- Anthony Armstrong (Director)
- Michael Shafer (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global Serve International, Inc.'s sole purpose is to establish a church in the U.S. that supports the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in remote areas of the world/Asia. Members in the United States complete extensive training in church planting techniques and then are sent to Unreached People Groups in Asia. Unreached people groups are individuals with a common language and culture who have little or no access to the Gospel. Once there are mature Christian believers in the Local (Asian) church, individuals (Nationals) are trained to become leaders of their church. The ultimate goal of GSI is to have leaders (Nationals) from church planted groups in Asia starting new churches, working cross-culturally in new unreached people group populations. Churches planting churches.
What it reported doing in 2025
Creation of local businesses in rural Asia, teaching work ethics & business principles to enhance local community relationships by investing in the local businesses with sustainable needs (food, water, shelter) of the community. By creating and sustaining local businesses, workers have the opportunity to develop intentional personal relationships with those of the communities with the hopes of sharing their personal relationship with God, in hopes to grow and train those in the local church.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 36
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.4%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.74; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.4% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.