Kids' Ark International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810631192
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8636601003
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $565,970
- Expenses
- $745,846
- Assets
- $3,026,195
- Liabilities
- $126,711
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RANDALL HERRING (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RUTH LUSHBAUGH (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $33,433 total reported compensation
- RANDALL HERRING (PRESIDENT): $18,752 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To impact lives in honduras through education, ministry, evangelism and benevolence programs to support discovering the love and hope of jesus christ. In addition, we support organizations that provide safety for rescued girls or women from abusive or trafficked situations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth camp we organize teams of church and community volunteers to bring underprivileged children from the mountains of honduras to the youth camp for a camp experience. For many of these children it is their first experience outside their village. At the camp, all the children receive bibles, clothes, shoes, and toys during our vacation bible school program. They also hear the gospel message and that god has a plan for their lives. We work with many medical teams to diagnose medical issues dental, eye, general health in the children and refer them to local doctors covering the costs. We provide a hot lunch for all the children and their teachers or parents. 15,300 served continued on schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
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 does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.06; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $634K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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: 7 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.