Hines Ugandan Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841494641
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Littleton, CO, US
- Phone
- (303) 847-9522
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,259,663
- Expenses
- $1,538,978
- Assets
- $248,124
- Liabilities
- $3,232
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALISON WILSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ALLEN HOLMES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALISON WILSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $61,161 total reported compensation
- KATHERINE HINES (DIRECTOR): $33,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Changing communities in Uganda for Jesus: reach orphans, vulnerable children, and widows with the love of Christ; equip through meaningful education to end the cycle of poverty; raise Christian leaders for community and country. Most of the children we work with are cared for by a single-parent or extended families, with the exception of those in the children’s home. All the children attend Church and Sunday school and participate in our program’s youth activities. We provide support that benefits the whole family, not just the child, extending the influence of Jesus to the entire community. How We Do It. How We Do It Sponsoring a Child.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided basic educational, medical and spiritual needs to over 500 ugandan children through sponsorship, including youth attending vocational and university training. Offered primary education to over 300 sponsored and community children through genesis nursery and primary school. Over 30 graduates from genesis primary and nursery school graduated with top scores on the national exam, which qualified them for high-quality high schools. Provided consistent food to spronsored children and their families and guardians as well as emergency food to other impovorished community families throughout the year.
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: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $93.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -22.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th 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: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.