IFCO Pastors for Peace
Legal name: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132590548
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212-665-1490
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,451,752
- Expenses
- $1,159,119
- Assets
- $2,232,572
- Liabilities
- $5,050
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MR A MYCHAL JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- REV KELVIN SAULS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MR A MYCHAL JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- PROF JENNIFER WAGER (TREASURER)
- MR AJAMU AMIRI DILLAHUNT (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) supports marginalized communities by contributing to the advancement of human and civil rights, serving as a bridge between faith communities and grassroots groups—particularly those led by people of color—through tools, training, and resources that strengthen community-building and advocacy efforts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community organizing, educational events and delegations ifco organizes educational events throughout the u.s. Including meetings, workshops, webinars, film screenings, cultural events, panel discussions and conferences on various issues, in order to educate and empower people to reach out to their neighbors, community groups, houses of worship and elected officials to discuss the impact. We provide support to other community organizations to do the same. Ifco also periodically sponsors study delegations to allow u.s. Citizens the opportunity to learn and travel in latin america and the caribbean. These typically lasting 7 to 10 days, address a variety of different interests and themes including healthcare, education, womens rights, culture, race, lgbt community concerns, and much more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $47.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 64; 64th 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 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.