Faith Comes By Hearing

Legal name: Hosanna

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850223225
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5058813321
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,531,716
Expenses
$53,916,897
Assets
$80,791,542
Liabilities
$2,857,044

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVE PARTON (VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS)
  • ALEX MATTHEW (VICE PRESIDENT OBT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MORGAN JACKSON (SENIOR VP): $164,138 total reported compensation
  • MELVIN MORRIS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $134,652 total reported compensation
  • SUSAN OLGUIN (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $134,404 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To record and provide the Word of God in every language that needs it. Partnership is the foundation of our mission. We believe that through collaboration, we can accomplish more than we ever could on our own. Over the years, our leadership has worked diligently to establish mutually beneficial partnerships with entities such as translation organizations, church planting and mission agencies, and key national and ethnic-background believers. These Kingdom-builders engage in face-to-face discipleship, establish listening groups, and plant churches. We provide the tools, training, and support to more than 700 organizations who faithfully pursue disciple-making efforts and the fulfillment of the Great Commission. As 2033 edges closer and closer, we pray that this.

What it reported doing in 2025

Fcbh bible engagement programs worldwide for fiscal year 2026, hosanna began 347,951 new listening projects in over 80 countries, with approximately 31,315,590 new listeners hearing the entire new testament in their indigenous language. Each group received a free audio new testament and listened at least once weekly for 30 minutes; 302,717 groups received proclaimer units. Most of the 301,669 programs started in 2025 continued in 2026. The every church/every village program provided over 8,279 new testaments on proclaimers to missionaries and individuals establishing listening groups across 190 countries. The worldwide average is 90 listeners per group, counting only those present at the programs initiation. Hosanna operates in churches, hospitals, unreached villages, prisons, schools, military and police settings, and jesus film follow-up programs. In the last ten years, over 1,603,000 military biblesticks have been provided to military personnel.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 76
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 37th 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; 10th 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: 4.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $46.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 17 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $19.2M reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.
  • 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.