International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC)
Legal name: International House of Prayer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742938029
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2014
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8167630200
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,377,714
- Expenses
- $5,377,616
- Assets
- $184,048
- Liabilities
- $196,298
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL L BICKLE (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- SIANG CHET LIM (TRUSTEE/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC OPPRIECHT (SENIOR VICE-PRES OF CORP SERVICES): $118,010 total reported compensation
- ALLEN HOOD (TRUSTEE): $106,629 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL L BICKLE (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR): $85,685 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
IHOPKC advances 24/7 prayer with worship and proclaiming the beauty of Jesus and His glorious return. Based in Kansas City and connected to a global community of partners and intercessors, IHOPKC is a missions base built around the conviction that night-and-day prayer with worship is central to the Church’s calling. Our community includes full-time intercessory missionaries, volunteers, and daily livestream participants from nations around the world –– gathering in person or online to seek God together. Our Mission A woman with curly hair singing into a microphone, seated on a chair, with a man in a hat playing guitar in the foreground, in a dimly lit room during a live performance.
What it reported doing in 2014
Pray and conduct prayer meetings. Teaching and encouraging others to pray through conducted seminars.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 25%; rating input score 25; 6th 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: 0%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2009 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.