Involved International
Legal name: Involved International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471907530
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, United States
- Phone
- 9186400820
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,132,744
- Expenses
- $1,036,260
- Assets
- $334,146
- Liabilities
- $1,088
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN KUERT (DIRECTOR): $117,226 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Involved International helps plant churches, train pastors, and build schools through church planting initiatives, pastoral training, and education resourcing in East Africa and the Francophone world. leadership training We were able to help train Church Planters in the countries of Burundi and Kenya. We had 29 graduates from our Burundi Church Planting School. Learn more. We built and opened a total of 5 new primary schools and 18 additional classrooms on existing school properties in 3 countries in East Africa in 2025. We began some new food distribution programs at the schools, increased water catchment projects and began more agricultural projects to empower local communities to sustain their local schools. We added our first school in Madagascar this last year.
What it reported doing in 2024
Church planting we facilitated 40 new churches across congo, kenya and burundi. This includes land purchase, building construction and pastoral training. Leadership training we were involved in helping to train over 170 pastors and church planters in east africa resourcing them with church planting curriculum and healthy leadership resources/seminars. Education we constructed 8 schools across 2 countries in east africa--kenya & burundi. These schools are being run by local churches that involved has planted. We are started 5 feeding programs at existing schools. We installed 12 water projects at existing schools.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $935K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.