Go Ye Fellowship

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
956001477
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2014
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2014
Location
Monrovia, CA, USA
Phone
6263865493
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,673,103
Expenses
$1,445,319
Assets
$741,396
Liabilities
$50,461

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID M SAND (Vice President)
  • JOHN DUNCKEL (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN DUNCKEL (President): $66,849 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE WOOD (Secretary/Treas): $18,996 total reported compensation
  • DAVID M SAND (Vice President): $5,052 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Missionary sending agency. Crosscultural evangelism, discipleship, and community/relief services.

What it reported doing in 2014

Founded in 1932 and incorporated in 1944, go ye fellowship is an international, interdenominational missionary sending agency. Missionaries (overseas and USA) are engaged in cross cultural evangelism, discipleship, and other activities to make jesus christ known and to bless and aid the people and communities they serve. Go ye fellowship's current ministry efforts include biblical discipleship and training, deaf ministry, children's center adjacent to slums, refugee relief, working with women caught in the sex industry, evengelizing unreached tribes, oral cultural evangelism, ethnomusicology, discipling university students, discipling prisoners, womens's ministries, christian camping, video production for unreached areas, international churches, hebrew scriptures, port ministry.

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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 58
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2014
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.