Ireland Outreach International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421167131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8322735652
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $665,652
- Expenses
- $1,152,064
- Assets
- $9,113,631
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Raymond Johnson (Mr.)
- Harrold Harper III (Mr.)
- Paul D Kline (Mr.)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the distribution of tracts, Bibles, and other Christian literature; providing Christian training in evangelism to teams of Christian young people; and coordinating the distribution of Gospel materials and humanitarian relief.
What it reported doing in 2025
To preach and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to under-privileged people and assist in humanitarian relief and community development projects in Africa. This involves the development and construction of "The Haven of Hope" facility in Nigeria, which has a functioning medical hospital, the initiation of a Bible college, ongoing literature distribution warehouse, and school, comprising pre-school through high school. Also, to dig water wells in areas lacking potable water, and to package water for distribution in areas without potable water. Through these projects, thousands of peoples' lives are being impacted each year both spiritually and practically.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -73.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.91; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.