Grace in Kent Missions Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332924259
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Kent, OH, USA
Phone
3306085424
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$461,247
Expenses
$72,245
Assets
$389,002
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Paul Anderson (Director and Treasurer)
  • Dallas Holcomb (Director and Board Chair)
  • Joan Hug-Anderson (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

The purpose of our organization is to distribute donated funds to Christian 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to support their charitable work in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel. We do this through the selection of like-minded organizations, including their supported missionaries, to fund their work. We also provide encouragement, refreshment, and prayer for the agencies and individuals we support through a group of volunteer members dedicated to these efforts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Special grants were provided to fifteen organizations for various purposes, including: $1500 to Blue Mountain Celebration, to provide shelter for abused women and their families; $1500 to a SEND International ministry establishing a church in Madrid, Spain; $1500 to China Outreach Ministries, a campus ministry at Kent State University to pay for bus rental for a student trip; $1500 to ABWE Live Global to support a church construction project in India; $900 for a Christian worker serving One Collective to renovate a residence in Normandy, France to serve at-risk youth as a respite center; $900 to the Coalition for Christian Outreach to provide scholarships for students at Kent State University to attend an annual ministry conference; $800 to WEC USA to cover an accreditation fee for their short-term missions program; $450 to the Navigators Kent State University ministry to cover expenses for student leader training; $500 to Interserve USA to help cover travel expenses for a Christian worker who oversees safety planning and training for their worldwide ministries; $500 to Missionview Church, North Canton, OH to assist with the distribution of Christian films for showing in West Africa; $500 to the Navigators to help cover travel expenses for a staff couple responsible for overseeing Christian workers serving in South America; $500 to Reliant Mission to cover tuition for the training of a pastor; $500 to the Torchbearer Foundation for Missions, Reconciliation, and Development to provide school supplies, tuition, and benevolence assistance to underprivileged families in the St Louis, MO metro area and to orphans and widows in West Africa; and $505 to purchase turkeys to support Thanksgiving community meals for the Salvation Army in Akron, OH.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 16.9%; rating input score 17
  • Program expense ratio: 98.5%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 33.1%; rating input score 33; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 84.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.38; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 16.9% of revenue deployed · 98.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 38 of 40 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.