24:14 World
Legal name: Grass Roots Development Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541836851
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Phone
- 434-872-3520
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,724,648
- Expenses
- $1,517,538
- Assets
- $941,738
- Liabilities
- $369
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kishor Pandagade (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kishor Pandagade (President): $36,000 total reported compensation
- Carl Gordon (Treasurer): $5,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We encourage, strengthen and support native or indigenous mission groups working on the front lines of world evangelization by linking them with their spiritual counterparts in the West, to jointly advance the Kingdom of God in all regions. Trips Give your members a chance to step out of their everyday life and literally become the hands and feet of Christ with short-term mission trips via some of our ministry partners. Periodically, there are short-term mission trip opportunities to Kashmir India via our ministry partner, Kashmir Evangelical Fellowship. Fill out the form below to learn more and be notified when mission trip opportunities are available. Give your members a chance to step out of their everyday life and literally become the hands and feet of Christ with short-term mission trips via some of our ministry partners. Periodically, there are short-term mission trip...
What it reported doing in 2025
Funds are provided to seek out, evaluate and support native missions with a clear and defined evangelical statement of faith. The organizations works with churches, foundations and individuals in North America who are willing to pray and give for the advancement of God's kingdom thess ministries serve
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $84.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- 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: 79%; rating input score 79; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.